Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0348793
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
One Step Pre-forms for Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre. The pre-form rods this project yields will enable polymer optical fibre technology, just as suitable glass pre-forms enabled today's optical fibre. One-step casting techniques will yield PMMA rods with arrays of internal channels which can be empty, or filled with different clear polymer. Polymer microstructured optical fibre (PMOF) suitable for high bandwidth communications is then produced by drawing. It is urgently needed for local communication networks in cars and buildings. Solid PMOF channels are new to this project, and should make PMOF easier to deploy. Nanoscale mapping of light transport modes and polymer defects will help validate channel designs.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2004
End Date: 04-2007
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $350,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Polymers | Communications Technologies | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Optical And Photonic Systems
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Plastic products (incl. Construction materials) | Network transmission equipment | Polymeric materials (e.g. paints) |
