Fabrication process and optical properties of perdeuterated graded-index polymer optical fiber

Atsushi Kondo; Takaaki Ishigure; Yasuhiro Koike

doi:10.1109/JLT.2005.852021

Fabrication process and optical properties of perdeuterated graded-index polymer optical fiber

Atsushi Kondo, Takaaki Ishigure, Yasuhiro Koike

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Abstract

We proposed a graded-index polymer optical fiber (GI-POF) enabling greater-than-gigabit data transmission in a short reach network by applying a two-step interfacial-gel polymerization process to a perdeuterated polymer material. Using this process, it is possible to fabricate a nearly optimum refractive-index profile with good reproducibility. In this paper, the preparation of a perdeuterated polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA-d8)-based GI-POF utilizing a PMMA cladding is described. This means that the low-loss PMMA-d8 material is used only for the core. Because the cladding transmits only a small fraction of the optical power, a low-loss material is not necessarily required for the cladding. It was verified that the low attenuation of the PMMA-d8 was maintained even if the cladding was composed of hydrogenated PMMA. As a result, a gigabit data transmission over 300 m was achieved by the PMMA-d8-core and PMMA-cladding GI-POF, which was impossible by the conventional PMMA-based GI-POF.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2443-2448
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	23
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2005.852021
Publication status	Published - 2005 Aug

Keywords

Low attenuation
Perdeuterated methyl metacrylate
Plastic optical fiber
Two-step interfacial-gel polymerization process

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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