Design and Fabrication of Polymer-Based Asymmetric Waveguide Coupler Utilizing Injection Moulding Process
Manufacture the plastic optical fiber (POF) is the key issue in this technology transfer program. Accelerate the manufacturing process of POF is the objective in this program. The design and modelling of an asymmetric waveguide couplers based on optical glue Epoxy OG142 is presented. The design...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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Knowledge Transfer Programme, Universiti Sains Malaysia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20967/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20967/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20967/1/Design%20and%20Fabrication%20of%20Polymer-Based%20Asymmetric%20Waveguide-fkm-2017.pdf |
| Summary: | Manufacture the plastic optical fiber (POF) is the key
issue in this technology transfer program. Accelerate
the manufacturing process of POF is the objective in
this program. The design and modelling of an
asymmetric waveguide couplers based on optical glue
Epoxy OG142 is presented. The design of the
asymmetric coupler is based on asymmetric Y-junction
splitter using tap-off ratio (TOFR) technique. This
asymmetric design was achieved by varying the size of
the tap line while the bus line was fixed at 1 mm size. A
Y-branch and the 1x2 asymmetric couplers with
different taper sizes have been designed using CAD
tool and ray traced using non-sequential ray tracing.
Plastic injection moulding procedure as the knowledge
transfer methodology set is set up to manufacture the
coupler. The designed TOFR for the 1x2 asymmetric
coupler varies from 23% to 50% for tap line width of
300 um to 1000 um. Ray tracing models of various
coupler designs showed a linear relationship between
the tap-off ratio (TOFR) and the waveguide tap width. |
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