Drawing optical fibers from three-dimensional printers

John Canning; Md Arafat Hossain; Chunyang Han; Loic Chartier; Kevin Cook; Tristan Athanaze

doi:10.1364/OL.41.005551

Optics Letters
Vol. 41,
Issue 23,
pp. 5551-5554
(2016)
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.41.005551

Drawing optical fibers from three-dimensional printers

John Canning, Md Arafat Hossain, Chunyang Han, Loic Chartier, Kevin Cook, and Tristan Athanaze

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Abstract

The temperature distribution within extrusion nozzles of three low-cost desktop 3D printers is characterized using fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) to assess their compatibility as micro-furnaces for optical fiber and taper production. These profiles show remarkably consistent distributions suitable for direct drawing of optical fiber. As proof of principle, coreless optical fibers ( $φ = 30 μm$ ) made from fluorinated acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) are drawn. Cutback measurements demonstrate propagation losses as low as $α = 0.26 dB / cm$ , which are comparable with standard optical fiber losses with some room for improvement. This work points toward direct optical fiber manufacture of any material from 3D printers.

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Model	Type	Source	Cost($AU)	nozzle #	$T_{max}$ (°C)
Delatsine Redback 2	Delta	3DBrink(Australia)	$3500	2	280
Dreamer	$x y z$	Flashforge(China)	$1490	2	300
M200	$x y z$	Zortrax(Poland)	$2600	1	380

	$t_{draw}$ (s)	$T_{draw}$ (°C)	$L$ (m)	$ϕ$ (μm)	$α$ (dB/cm) at 543 nm	$α$ (dB/cm) at 1550 nm
ABS	$0.78 \pm 0.20$	230	$2.3 \pm 0.3$	$32 \pm 2$	$0.33 \pm 0.01$	$0.38 \pm 0.01$
PETG	$1.04 \pm 0.20$	230	$2.4 \pm 0.4$	$33 \pm 2$	$0.26 \pm 0.01$	$0.26 \pm 0.01$

Model	Type	Source	Cost($AU)	nozzle #	$T_{max}$ (°C)
Delatsine Redback 2	Delta	3DBrink(Australia)	$3500	2	280
Dreamer	$x y z$	Flashforge(China)	$1490	2	300
M200	$x y z$	Zortrax(Poland)	$2600	1	380

	$t_{draw}$ (s)	$T_{draw}$ (°C)	$L$ (m)	$ϕ$ (μm)	$α$ (dB/cm) at 543 nm	$α$ (dB/cm) at 1550 nm
ABS	$0.78 \pm 0.20$	230	$2.3 \pm 0.3$	$32 \pm 2$	$0.33 \pm 0.01$	$0.38 \pm 0.01$
PETG	$1.04 \pm 0.20$	230	$2.4 \pm 0.4$	$33 \pm 2$	$0.26 \pm 0.01$	$0.26 \pm 0.01$

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