Air-structured optical fibre drawn from a 3D-printed preform
Instrumentation and Detectors
2016-09-08 v1 Optics
Abstract
A structured optical fibre is drawn from a 3D-printed structured preform. Preforms containing a single ring of holes around the core are fabricated using filament made from a modified butadiene polymer. More broadly, 3D printers capable of processing soft glasses, silica and other materials are likely to come on line in the not-so distant future. 3D printing of optical preforms signals a new milestone in optical fibre manufacture.
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@article{arxiv.1609.02014,
title = {Air-structured optical fibre drawn from a 3D-printed preform},
author = {Kevin Cook and John Canning and Sergio Leon-Saval and Zane Reid and Md Arafat Hossain and Jade-Edouard Comatti and Yanhua Luo and Gang-Ding Peng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02014},
year = {2016}
}
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Published in Optics Letters