Advanced Technologies for Service-Integrated Optical In-Building Networks

Koonen, Ton; Larrode, M. Garcia; Yang, Jinge; Urban, Patryk J.; Yang, H.; Ng’oma, Anthony; Rijckenberg, G.J.; Boom, H.P.A. van den

doi:10.1109/icton.2007.4296046

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“…A wide range of applications are available for plastic optical fiber (POF) which covers databased and non-data related applications. The demand for high bandwidth not only up to the end-user premises but eventually will go inside the home itself is highly influenced by the availability of the broadband services [1]. POF is the most promising solution to the 'last 100 m" in data communication and becomes the next major portion beyond the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) [2].…”

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Acrylic-Based 1x2 Plastic Optical Fiber Coupler Device Manufacturing Using EGX400 Desktop Engraver System

Ehsan

Rahman

2011

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An all-acrylic-based 1x2 plastic optical fiber (POF) coupler has been designed and manufactured. The optical device is based on a simple 1x2 Y-branch coupler design with a middle high index contrast waveguide taper and splitting ratio of 50:50. Device modeling has been performed using non-sequential ray tracing with an insertion loss of 4.68 dB. Machining of the optical device has been performed using EGX400 desktop engraver system. 1 mm milling tool size with machine spindle speed of 15,000 rpm has been utilized. A simple optimization on the milling process prior to machining improved the coupling surfaces between the POF fibers and the waveguide taper. POF fibers are inserted into the engraved u-grooves and are passively aligned to the waveguide taper. The measured insertion loss is 7.5 dB and with a splitting ratio of 50:50.

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confidence: 99%