2016/08/31 by Kevin Cook, Geoffrey Balle, CooK, Kevin +17
Engineering · #Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors #Advanced optical system design #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Optics (physics.optics) #Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1609.02012
openalex publication_date 2016/08/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Optical fibre is drawn from a dual-head 3D printer fabricated preform made of two optically transparent plastics with a high index core (NA ~ 0.25, V > 60). The asymmetry observed in the fibre arises from asymmetry in the 3D printing process. The highly multi-mode optical fibre has losses measured by cut-back as low as α ~ 0.44 dB/cm in the near IR.