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Ultrasonic splicing of polymer optical fibres

Author(s) -

Mizuno Y.,

Ohara S.,

Hayashi N.,

Nakamura K.

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

electronics letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375

H-Index - 146

ISSN - 1350-911X

DOI - 10.1049/el.2014.1224

Subject(s) - ultrasonic sensor , optical fiber , rna splicing , materials science , polymer , optoelectronics , acoustics , optics , composite material , computer science , physics , biology , gene , genetics , rna

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.

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