Guiding in the visible with "colorful" solid-core Bragg fibers.
We report on the fabrication and characterization of solid-core all-polymer Bragg fibers consisting of a large-diameter polymethyl methylacrylate (PMMA) core surrounded by 50 alternating PMMA/Polystyrene (PS) polymer layers. By modifying the reflector layer thickness we illustrate that bandgap position can be adjusted at will in the visible. Moreover, such fibers are intensely colored in both the transmission and the outside reflection modes. Potential applications of such fibers are discussed.
Dupuis
Alexandre
A
Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Génie Physique, Québec, Canada.
Guo
Ning
N
Gauvreau
Bertrand
B
Hassani
Alireza
A
Pone
Elio
E
Boismenu
Francis
F
Skorobogatiy
Maksim
M
D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate / Q000737:chemistry*; D011137:Polystyrenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods
D011137:Polystyrenes; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate