Design and fabrication of an acrylic-based 1&amp;#x00D7;2 POF coupler using CNC Machining

Abang Annuar Ehsan,Mohd Kamil Abd Rahman,Sahbudin Shaari

doi:10.1109/smelec.2008.4770337

Design and fabrication of an acrylic-based 1&#x00D7;2 POF coupler using CNC Machining

Abang Annuar Ehsan, Mohd Kamil Abd Rahman + Show 1 more

https://doi.org/10.1109/smelec.2008.4770337

Copy DOI

Publication Date: Nov 1, 2008

Citations: 16

Affiliation: National University of Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi MARA

#Plastic Optical Fiber Coupler #Plastic Optical Fiber + Show 8 more

Abstract
Full-Text PDF
Similar Papers

Abstract

A low cost acrylic-based 1times2 Plastic optical fiber (POF) coupler has been designed and fabricated. The POF coupler has a middle waveguide taper made of UV curable glue and POF fibers for the input and output ports. Non-sequential ray tracing has been performed on the POF coupler. Mold insert has been fabricated using EGX-400 desktop CNC machining with a groove opening of 1 mm which allows the 1 mm core size POF to be slotted into the mold insert. Norland NOA-71 UV curable glue is injected into the waveguide taper region and cured using UV exposure source. The device has an insertion loss of 8 dB and excess loss of about 4.6 dB.

Full Text