A new generation of plastic optical fibers and its functional exploiting

摘要

A major problem of plastic optical fibers(POFs) is large transmission loss in comparison with silica fibers.After adopting a new optical fiber structure,hollow-core Bragg fiber with cobweb-structured cladding,which can suppress the absorption losses of constituent materials by a factor of about 104―106,the problem of POFs with large losses is solved ultimately.With the advantage of flexibility and easy bending,the POFs with this structure can guide light with low transmission loss for information and energy in the wavelength range of visible light to terahertz(THz) wave(0.4―1000μm).This new generation of POFs will find many applications