NOVEL STUCTURES AND MATERIALS IN MICROSTRUCTURED POLYMER OPTICAL FIBRES

去年，我们成功地制造了微结构聚合物光纤（MPOF）。这项工作意味着可以克服类似玻璃纤维的制造限制，并可以研究全新类型的结构。由于聚合物可以包含比玻璃多得多的掺杂剂，因此MPOF的材料特性也可以被充分利用来开发新的纤维功能。MPOF中结构和材料灵活性的结合为从根本上重新定义微结构纤维的可能性提供了机会。这正是我们在这个项目中探索的可能性。

Last year we succeeded in fabricating the microstructured polymer optical fibres (MPOF). This work means that the fabrication constraints applying to similar glass fibres can be overcome, and entirely new types of structures can be investigated. As polymers can contain a much larger variety of dopants than glass the material properties of MPOF can also be fully exploited to develop new fibre functionalities. The combination of structural and material flexibility possible in MPOF offer the opportunity to radically redefine what is possible in microstructured fibres. It is these possibilities that we aim to explore in this project.