Dopant designing of Thermally Stable Graded Index Plastic Optical Fiber

Y. Yamaki; A. Kondo; Y. Koike

doi:10.1117/12.808092

Dopant designing of Thermally Stable Graded Index Plastic Optical Fiber

Y. Yamaki, A. Kondo, Y. Koike

Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics

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Abstract

The graded index polymer optical fiber (GI POF) has been proposed as a media for very short reach network because of its high flexibility, low laying cost and excellent transmission characteristics. However, the plasticization efficiency which causes by the high refractive dopant decreases the glass transition temperature (T_g) in the center of the core and deteriorates thermal stability of fibers. In this paper, thermally stable PMMA based GI POF was successfully fabricated for the first time by designing dopant molecule which has little plasticizer effect. T_g at the core region was improved to 104 °C while that of conventional GI POF is 86 °C. Stability of attenuation at 85 °C/dry and 75 °C/85 %RH were clarified to be as high as that of non-doped step index POF.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XI
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.808092
Publication status	Published - 2009 Jun 29
Event	Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XI - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: 2009 Jan 27 → 2009 Jan 29

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7213
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XI
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	09/1/27 → 09/1/29

Keywords

9-Bromophenanthrene
Co-extrusion process
Graded-Index plastic optical fiber
High refractive index molecule
PMMA
Plasticization effect
Tg
Thermally stable fiber

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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