Abstract
Problem statement: Polymer Optical Fiber (POF) has many advantages making it the choice of today's communication, especially in auto motive industry. This communication requires low cost ways for much information to be sent simultane ously. Because of this, using Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) concept, a low cost and green 3 ×3 POF splitter is fabricated. It is fabricated using cheap and easy-to-find tools such as metal tu be and candle. Approach: The fabrication is being done by taking three strands of POF and heating the middle parts so that it will melted and fused together until it elongated and shrink to a diamete r of 1 mm. Successfully fabricated POF splitter are characterized by measuring the output losses, befor e and after the POF's end is being smoothed and polished using two sand study of different degree o f coarseness. This is to observe the effect of polishing on optical signal losses. POF splitter's losses are also measured on different temperature t o observe the effect of temperature on the splitter's performance. Results: Based on the result, it is obvious that cleanliness and a flat POF's end surfa ce influenced the losses with a reduction between 0.3- 5.0 dB. Temperature, even though subtle, does also affect the signal losses with increased losses averaging around 0.3 dB. Overall, the losses in the fabricated POF splitter are still high, but show promising improvement with amelioration of fusion technique and the use of tools with higher quality. Conclusion: This low cost fabrication technique is believed to commercially produce cheap POF splitter, but with more in-depth research on the fu sion technique, source of losses and ways to minimize the losses and improve output optic signal s.
Highlights
Copper wire is a conventional conductor that used for data transmission from one place to another place
The use of copper wire has many shortcomings such as the transmitted signal will be affected by electrical characteristics such as resistance and interference that resulting during the data transmission and dependence on transmitted distance
In addition to the use of copper wire, optical fiber glass is used as a medium of data transmission
Summary
Copper wire is a conventional conductor that used for data transmission from one place to another place. The fabricated POF splitter has to use a low cost fusion technique by using tools that are already. Fusion technique is easy to perform without having to learn a lot of knowledge about the operation The fabricated POF splitter will go through a process of characterization. For fabrication of POF splitter, Fused Biconical Taper technique will be used This technique will use all the tools available, such as candle for heating and metal tubes to avoid POF contacted directly with heat from candle Fig. 3 and 4 (Rahman et al, 2012). Fusion means to include the three POF together so that they will be elongated and narrowed into a POF with a diameter of red light at 665 nm at one input and power meter will be used This process is carried out for all input whether for forward bias or reverse bias. Monitoring process should always be done to prevent a part of fused POF become too small
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