Step-index optical fibre drawn from 3D printed preforms
Instrumentation and Detectors
2016-09-08 v1 Optics
Abstract
Optical fibre is drawn from a dual-head 3D printer fabricated preform made of two optically transparent plastics with a high index core (NA ~ 0.25, V > 60). The asymmetry observed in the fibre arises from asymmetry in the 3D printing process. The highly multi-mode optical fibre has losses measured by cut-back as low as {\alpha} ~ 0.44 dB/cm in the near IR.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.02012,
title = {Step-index optical fibre drawn from 3D printed preforms},
author = {Kevin CooK and Geoffrey Balle and John Canning and Loic Chartier and Tristan Athanaze and Md Arafat Hossain and Chunyang Han and Jade-Edouard Comatti and Yanhua Luo and Gang-Ding Peng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02012},
year = {2016}
}
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Submission date: to Optics Letters 17 July 2016