Highly deformable optical fibers made of polyurethane: OAM generation, tunable metamaterials and sensors
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Conference paperAbstract
Polyurethane has a Young’s modulus three orders of magnitude lower than silica and can be stretched up to 600%. We report the fabrication of polyurethane optical fibers for applications from THz to the visible. We exploit its elastic properties to generate orbital angular momentum modes, to make pressure sensors and to realize tunable metamaterials by co-drawing polyurethane with poly(methyl methacrylate) and indium.Polyurethane has a Young’s modulus three orders of magnitude lower than silica and can be stretched up to 600%. We report the fabrication of polyurethane optical fibers for applications from THz to the visible. We exploit its elastic properties to generate orbital angular momentum modes, to make pressure sensors and to realize tunable metamaterials by co-drawing polyurethane with poly(methyl methacrylate) and indium.
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Date
2017Source title
5th Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF 2017)Publisher
Cyprus University of TechnologyFunding information
ARC DP170103537ARC DP140104116
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (H2020) (708860)
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Faculty of Science, School of PhysicsShare