Title :
Ultrasonic splicing of polymer optical fibres
Author :
Mizuno, Yosuke ; Ohara, Shinya ; Hayashi, Neisei ; Nakamura, Kentaro
Author_Institution :
Precision & Intell. Lab., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama, Japan
fDate :
September 11 2014
Abstract :
A new method of splicing polymer optical fibres by irradiation of megahertz ultrasonic waves is demonstrated. The lowest connection loss of 1.5 dB is obtained at 2 MHz, and a high mechanical strength of 59 N (close to the strength of the base polymer) is achieved at 1 MHz. It is shown that the loss and strength are in a trade-off relationship, and that the duration of ultrasonic irradiation has a certain optimal value of ~1 s.
Keywords :
mechanical strength; optical fibre fabrication; optical losses; optical polymers; polymer fibres; splicing; ultrasonic waves; connection loss; frequency 2 MHz to 1 MHz; mechanical strength; megahertz ultrasonic wave irradiation; polymer optical fibres; ultrasonic splicing;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2014.1224
