Microstructured Polymer Optical FibresMicrostructured Polymer Optical Fibres describes the optical properties of microstructured fibres, how they are made and modelled, and outlines some potential applications. These applications include areas where polymer fibres are already used, such as high-data rate transmission for Fibre-to-the Home or within cars, as well as completely new areas such as the photonic bandgap transmission of "difficult" wavelengths. Emphasising a conceptual understanding of the underlying physics, Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres is clearly written, and includes numerous illustrations. It provides an excellent overview of the latest developments in the field, making them accessible to industry, technical and research audiences. |
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... produced, but also make it much easier to produce different hole structures. In silica, most microstructured fibres use the “stack and draw” technique, where a preform is constructed by stacking capillaries and rods, which is then drawn ...
... produces hydrofluoric acid as a by-product. Theoretically, the best fluorinated material should have a loss ... produced by DuPont in 1963. Processing improvements lowered the loss for PMMA step index fibres to around 150 dB/km at 650 nm ...
... produce by any other means. There are two general approaches to making optical fibres. In most cases, particularly in silica, fibres are drawn from a “preform” – a short, fat version of the fibre which contains the desired radial ...
... produced. Not all glass fibres however, can be made using vapour deposition techniques because they require the ... produce good interfaces between the two materials, with stress and scattering at the interface being common problems ...
... produces much larger differences in refractive index than doping. Thus glasses and polymers have almost complementary qualities. For glass, at least in silica, there are excellent methods for producing doped fibres with small index ...
Contents
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Concepts in Waveguide Theory | 21 |
Guiding Concepts in Microstructured Fibres | 39 |
The Modelling and Design of mPOFs | 53 |
Fabrication of mPOFs | 83 |
Effects of Drawing on the Microstructure | 111 |
The Handling and Characterisation of mPOFs 131 | 130 |
HollowCore mPOF | 165 |
Index | 229 |
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Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres Maryanne Large,Leon Poladian,Geoff Barton,Martijn A. van Eijkelenborg No preview available - 2014 |