HYDROGEN EVOLVING TENDENCIES OF CABLE FILLERS AND OPTICAL FIBER COATINGS.

The purpose of this article is to provide experimental data and chemical evidence to change this conclusion and demonstrate that silicone materials provide significant value to the optical fiber cable when they are properly selected and used. This article reports measurements of the amount of hydrogen generated by a number of silicone materials in various environments of heat and humidity. The generation of large amounts of hydrogen occurs with platinum catalyzed thermally curing elastomers and not with silicones in general.