Abstract:Abstract:In this paper, a simple method of manufacturing micrometer-sized polymer elements (microtips) at the extremities of the photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), which are replacing standard optical fibers in many applications due to their unique properties, is presented. The method of microtips fabrication is based on the phenomena of photopolymerization, which is successfully used by the first time, to be best of our knowledge, to manufacture microtip at PCF. The three component photopolymerizable formulation… Show more
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