Journal article
Simple Room Temperature Method for Polymer Optical Fibre Cleaving
Polytechnic University of Valencia1
Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Fiber Sensors & Supercontinuum, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark4
Aston University5
In this paper, we report on a new method to cleave polymer optical fibre. The most common way to cut a polymer optical fibre is chopping it with a razor blade; however, in this approach both the fibre and the blade must be preheated in order to turn the material ductile, and thus, prevent crazing. In this paper, we make use of the temperature-time equivalence in polymers to replace the use of heating by an increase of the cleaving time and use a sawing motion to reduce fibre end face damage.
In this way, the polymer fibre can be cleaved at room temperature in seconds with the resulting end face being of similar quality to those produced by more complex and expensive heated systems.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 4712-4716 |
| ISSN: | 15582213 and 07338724 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1109/JLT.2015.2479365 |
| ORCIDs: | Bang, Ole |
Blades Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies Optical fiber sensors Optical fibers POF POF for sensing and telecommunications POF handling Photonics and Electrooptics Polymer Optical fibre Polymer optical fibre (POF) Polymers Sawing Stress optical fibre fabrication optical fibre testing optical polymers polymer optical cleaver polymer optical fibre cleaving razor blade room temperature method sawing motion temperature 2.93E+02 2.98E+02 K temperature 293 K to 298 K temperature-time equivalence
