Chemical and photo-chemical bonding of polymer and silica fibers

• Authors: Miłosz S. Chychłowski , Sławomir Ertman , Tomasz R. Woliński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we present a permanent way of connecting two different fiber types. One of them is a novel fiber based on polymer as the main construction material, with a build-in photonic structure in its cladding. The second type is a typical silica single-mode fiber. Due to the differences of base materials, thermal bonding is impossible in order to keep both structures intact. However, chemical bonding by using appropriate materials can connect two types of fibers without disturbing their inner structures. The additional advantage of the proposed chemical "splicing" method is that an adhesive can act as an index matching material decreasing losses.

Discipline

• PLANT_PATHOLOGY: PLANT PATHOLOGY

• Publisher: Photonics Society of Poland
• Journal: Photonics Letters of Poland
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 111-113

Dates

published

30 - 9 - 2014

received

24 - 9 - 2014

accepted

30 - 9 - 2014

Contributors

author

Miłosz S. Chychłowski

author

Sławomir Ertman

author

Tomasz R. Woliński

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• Document Type: article

Identifiers

DOI

10.4302/plp.2014.3.12