Optical fibers fabricated from 3D printed silica preforms
Optical fibers fabricated from 3D printed silica preforms
The increasing demand for novel fiber design has brought major challenges with the current fabrication methods. Additive manufacturing is an innovative fabrication process that has been attracting attention to the optical fiber community. 3D printed porous bodies from commercial silica powder were produced based on selective laser sintering (SLS). Complex structures such as antiresonant fiber (ARF), photonic crystal fiber (PCF) and multicore fiber (MCF) preforms were produced by this method. Additionally, a multi-material fiber with a silica cladding and a GeO2-SiO2 core was fabricated from a 3D printed preform. The optical and physical properties of the fabricated 3D printed structures were reported.
3D printing, 3D printing glass, Optical Fiber, SLS, Silica
Camacho Rosales, Angeles
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Núñez-Velázquez, Martin Miguel Angel
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Zhao, Xiao
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Sahu, Jayanta
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2 February 2020
Camacho Rosales, Angeles
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Núñez-Velázquez, Martin Miguel Angel
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Zhao, Xiao
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Sahu, Jayanta
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Camacho Rosales, Angeles, Núñez-Velázquez, Martin Miguel Angel, Zhao, Xiao and Sahu, Jayanta
(2020)
Optical fibers fabricated from 3D printed silica preforms.
Gu, Bo, Chen, Hongqiang and Helvajian, Henry
(eds.)
In Laser 3D Manufacturing VII.
vol. 11271,
SPIE.
7 pp
.
(doi:10.1117/12.2543210).
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Abstract
The increasing demand for novel fiber design has brought major challenges with the current fabrication methods. Additive manufacturing is an innovative fabrication process that has been attracting attention to the optical fiber community. 3D printed porous bodies from commercial silica powder were produced based on selective laser sintering (SLS). Complex structures such as antiresonant fiber (ARF), photonic crystal fiber (PCF) and multicore fiber (MCF) preforms were produced by this method. Additionally, a multi-material fiber with a silica cladding and a GeO2-SiO2 core was fabricated from a 3D printed preform. The optical and physical properties of the fabricated 3D printed structures were reported.
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Published date: 2 February 2020
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The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council award: EP/M020916/1; and CONACyT-Mexico awards: CVU607008 and CVU377962. All data supporting this study is available at https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D0964
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Keywords:
3D printing, 3D printing glass, Optical Fiber, SLS, Silica
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438734
ISSN: 0277-786X
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Angeles Camacho Rosales
Author:
Martin Miguel Angel Núñez-Velázquez
Author:
Xiao Zhao
Editor:
Bo Gu
Editor:
Hongqiang Chen
Editor:
Henry Helvajian
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