This paper will report recent developments in electro-optic polymer optical fibers. We discuss mainly the experimental work done by the Photonics and Optical Communications Group in the University of New South Wales. The relevant issues regarding material processing, design and fabrication of electric-optic polymer fibers and devices will be addressed. In particular, electro-optical polymer fibers that incorporating various electro-optic organic materials, including the well-known disperse red 1, the synthetically attached DR1 side chain monomers, optical liquid crystals, etc., have been fabricated and investigated.

Date Published: 23 January 2002
PDF: 17 pages
Proc. SPIE 4459, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications VII, and Optical Data Storage, (23 January 2002); doi: 10.1117/12.454009

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4459:
Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications VII, and Optical Data Storage
Shizhuo Yin; Hans J. Coufal; Francis T. S. Yu; Hans J. Coufal, Editor(s)