Novel method for manufacturing optical fiber: extrusion and drawing of microstructured polymer optical fibers from a 3D printer
Novel method for manufacturing optical fiber: extrusion and drawing of microstructured polymer optical fibers from a 3D printer
Microstructured polymer optical fibers (MPOFs) have long attracted great interest due to their wide range of applications in biological and chemical sensing. In this manuscript, we demonstrate a novel technique of manufacturing MPOFs via a single-step procedure by mean of a 3D printer. A suspended-core polymer optical fiber has been extruded and directly drawn from a micro-structured 3D printer nozzle by using an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) polymer. Near-field imaging at the fiber facet performed at the wavelength λ~1550 nm clearly indicates guidance in the fiber core. The propagation loss has been experimentally demonstrated to be better than α = 1.1 dB/cm. This work points toward direct MPOFs manufacturing of varieties of materials and structures of optical fibers from 3D printers using a single manufacturing step.
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Talataisong, Wanvisa
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Ismaeel, Rand
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26 November 2018
Talataisong, Wanvisa
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Ismaeel, Rand
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Sandoghchi, Seyed Reza
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Rutirawut, Teerapat
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Beresna, Martynas
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Talataisong, Wanvisa, Ismaeel, Rand, Sandoghchi, Seyed Reza, Rutirawut, Teerapat, Beresna, Martynas and Brambilla, Gilberto
(2018)
Novel method for manufacturing optical fiber: extrusion and drawing of microstructured polymer optical fibers from a 3D printer.
Optics Express, 26 (24), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.26.032007).
Abstract
Microstructured polymer optical fibers (MPOFs) have long attracted great interest due to their wide range of applications in biological and chemical sensing. In this manuscript, we demonstrate a novel technique of manufacturing MPOFs via a single-step procedure by mean of a 3D printer. A suspended-core polymer optical fiber has been extruded and directly drawn from a micro-structured 3D printer nozzle by using an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) polymer. Near-field imaging at the fiber facet performed at the wavelength λ~1550 nm clearly indicates guidance in the fiber core. The propagation loss has been experimentally demonstrated to be better than α = 1.1 dB/cm. This work points toward direct MPOFs manufacturing of varieties of materials and structures of optical fibers from 3D printers using a single manufacturing step.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 October 2018
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Published date: 26 November 2018
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Wanvisa Talataisong
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Rand Ismaeel
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Seyed Reza Sandoghchi
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Teerapat Rutirawut
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Martynas Beresna
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Gilberto Brambilla
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