Singlemoded THz guidance in bendable TOPAS suspended-core fiber directly drawn from a 3D printer.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 Jul 2020
06 Jul 2020
Historique:
received:
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12
2019
accepted:
11
06
2020
entrez:
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7
2020
pubmed:
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7
2020
medline:
8
7
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Terahertz (THz) technology has witnessed a significant growth in a wide range of applications, including spectroscopy, bio-medical sensing, astronomical and space detection, THz tomography, and non-invasive imaging. Current THz microstructured fibers show a complex fabrication process and their flexibility is severely restricted by the relatively large cross-sections, which turn them into rigid rods. In this paper, we demonstrate a simple and novel method to fabricate low-cost THz microstructured fibers. A cyclic olefin copolymer (TOPAS) suspended-core fiber guiding in the THz is extruded from a structured 3D printer nozzle and directly drawn in a single step process. Spectrograms of broadband THz pulses propagated through different lengths of fiber clearly indicate guidance in the fiber core. Cladding mode stripping allow for the identification of the single mode in the spectrograms and the determination of the average propagation loss (~ 0.11 dB/mm) in the 0.5-1 THz frequency range. This work points towards single step manufacturing of microstructured fibers using a wide variety of materials and geometries using a 3D printer platform.
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pubmed: 32632256
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68079-y
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-68079-y
pmc: PMC7338405
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Journal Article
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eng
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