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Additive Manufactured And Laser Enhanced Optical Fiber On Flexible Kapton Substrate, Dianhao Hou
Additive Manufactured And Laser Enhanced Optical Fiber On Flexible Kapton Substrate, Dianhao Hou
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis mainly focuses on the realization of laser enhancing additive manufactured optical fibers on the flexible substrate based on previous work on the rigid surface, and the exploration of their loss at different bend status by optical transmission test. Optical fibers are successfully fabricated using polymethyl methacrylate by fused deposition modeling technology within Norland Optical Adhesive 1369 which is chosen as the cladding material and micro-dispensed on the Kapton substrate. The Laser cutting technology and scanning electron microscope have been used to enhance and characterize the flatness of two end facets of samples, respectively. The optical adhesive and PMMA …