Waveguiding property of a plastic optical fiber fabricated using low-birefringence copolymer

Rei Furukawa; Akihiro Tagaya; Shuichi Iwata; Yasuhiro Koike

doi:10.1143/JJAP.46.L1182

Waveguiding property of a plastic optical fiber fabricated using low-birefringence copolymer

Rei Furukawa, Akihiro Tagaya, Shuichi Iwata, Yasuhiro Koike

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We propose a polarization-maintaining waveguide fabricated with a large waveguiding area (core diameter: 750 μm) using polymeric material. We previously developed and demonstrated a zero-birefringence copolymer in a film structure of 40 to 70 μm thickness. This time, we have fabricated a 20-m-long optical fiber using the same copolymer as the core material. The polarization-maintaining performance of the low-birefringence polymer optical fiber was studied by comparison with that for other types of plastic optical fibers. As a result, the low-birefringence polymer optical fiber showed a high extinction ratio for fiber lengths between 0.4 and 20m.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	L1182-L1184
Journal	Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters
Volume	46
Issue number	45-49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.46.L1182
Publication status	Published - 2007 Dec 14
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Extinction ratio
Orientational birefringence
Plastic optical fiber
Random copolymerization

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Engineering(all)
Physics and Astronomy(all)

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