Advances in low index polymer cladding materials

Timothy E. Clark; Seung-Jo Kwak

doi:10.1117/12.868250

14 October 2010 Advances in low index polymer cladding materials

Timothy E. Clark, Seung-Jo Kwak

Proceedings Volume 7839, 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-2); 783911 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.868250
Event: Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-10), 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico

Abstract

Low index polymer claddings were developed and tested for use with silica core fibers. Polymers with varying indices of refraction were developed, so that numerical apertures useful for multiple applications were produced. High transmission over a wide wavelength range was obtained, both for films and for clad fibers. A refractive index as low as 1.363 was achieved, which results in a numerical aperture of 0.50 (at 852 nm) when used in cladding silica cores. Results for fibers clad with 1.373 index material under high temperatures (150 °C) show that worst case change in loss was within 0.084 dB, even over a time frame of 6400 hours.

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Timothy E. Clark and Seung-Jo Kwak "Advances in low index polymer cladding materials", Proc. SPIE 7839, 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF-2), 783911 (14 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.868250

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