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Fabrication of all‐polymeric photonic bandgap Bragg fibers using rolling of coextruded PS/PMMA multilayer films
Author(s) -
Stoeffler Karen,
Dubois Charles,
Ajji Abdellah,
Guo Ning,
Boismenu Francis,
Skorobogatiy Maksim
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.21631
Subject(s) - materials science , refractive index , polystyrene , refractive index contrast , fabrication , polymethyl methacrylate , photonics , fiber , photonic crystal , composite material , band gap , bragg's law , fiber bragg grating , wavelength , optoelectronics , optics , polymer , diffraction , medicine , alternative medicine , physics , pathology
Photonic bandgap Bragg fibers feature periodic sequence of layers of different materials. In those particular waveguides, the wave path is controlled by a periodical spatial modification of the refractive index. Depending on the periodicity of the structure and on the refractive index contrast, a specific wavelength range is propagated along the fiber axis. In this work, we developed all‐polymeric photonic bandgap Bragg fibers based on polystyrene (PS)/polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) alternating layers. We describe a novel and efficient method for the preparation of the fibers preforms, and we present the fibers drawing process and the transmission properties of the resulting Bragg fibers. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 2010. © 2009 Society of Plastics Engineers