Cleaving of Extremely Porous Polymer Fibers

IEEE Photonics Journal

S. Atakaramians¹  K. Cook²  S. Afshar V.³  D. Abbott⁴  H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem⁵  T. M. Monro⁵  J. Canning⁶ 

[1] $^{1}$Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, School of Chemistry & Physics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia $^{2}$ Adelaide T-ray Group, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia;$^{3}$Interdiscplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL), School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;;Adelaide T-ray Group, Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia;Inst. for Photonics & Adv. Sensing, Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia;Interdiscplinary Photonics Labs. (iPL), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia;

关键词: Waveguides;    subwavelength structures;    terahertz;    excimer laser;   

DOI  :  10.1109/JPHOT.2009.2038796

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Different cleaving techniques, based on the use of a semiconductor dicing saw, focused-ion-beam milling, and a 193-nm ultraviolet laser, have been exploited to cleave highly porous polymer fibers developed for guiding terahertz radiation. Porous fibers made up of two different polymer materials have been cleaved with the proposed methods and compared with those achieved from the conventional cleaving method. Regardless of the polymer material used for fabricating terahertz porous fibers, using an ultraviolet laser for cleaving and rotating the fiber during the process rapidly provides smooth and reproducible cleaves across the entire fiber cross section.

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