Biodegradable polymer optical fiber
(Conference Presentation)

Chenji Zhang; Surge Kalaba; Dingying Shan; Kaitian Xu; Jian Yang; Zhiwen Liu

doi:10.1117/12.2237959

2 November 2016 Biodegradable polymer optical fiber (Conference Presentation)

Chenji Zhang, Surge Kalaba, Dingying Shan, Kaitian Xu, Jian Yang, Zhiwen Liu

Proceedings Volume 9956, Ultrafast Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy IV; 99560N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237959
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Biocompatible and even biodegradable polymers have unique advantages in various biomedical applications. Recent years, photonic devices fabricated using biocompatible polymers have been widely studied. In this work, we manufactured an optical fiber using biodegradable polymer POC and POMC. This step index optical fiber is flexible and easy to handle. Light was coupled into this polymer fiber by directly using objective. The fiber has a good light guiding property and an approximate loss of 2db/cm. Due to the two layer structure, our fiber is able to support applications inside biological tissue. Apart from remarkable optical performance, our fiber was also found capable of performing imaging. By measuring the impulse response of this multimode polymer fiber and using the linear inversion algorithm, concept proving experiments were completed. Images input into our fiber were able to be retrieved from the intensity distribution of the light at the output end. Experiment result proves the capability of our optical fiber to be used as a fiber endoscopy no needs to remove.

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Chenji Zhang, Surge Kalaba, Dingying Shan, Kaitian Xu, Jian Yang, and Zhiwen Liu "Biodegradable polymer optical fiber (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9956, Ultrafast Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy IV, 99560N (2 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237959

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