Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0348793

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/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: 30-04-2004

End Date: 30-04-2007

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) |

Other Keywords

Communications Technologies | Network transmission equipment | Optical And Photonic Systems | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Plastic products (incl. Construction materials) | Polymeric materials (e.g. paints) | Polymers

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