Polymeric waveguide with single dopant
AssigneeThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University
InventorsHwa-Yaw Tam, Julien Bonefacino, Xin Cheng
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the use of dopants for polymer optical fibers or polymer waveguides containing the dopants, sensors in the polymer optical fibers or polymer waveguides, which may be used in the biomedical industry for the measurement of different physiological and physical variables.
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A polymer optical fibre comprising a single dopant material resulting in both a refractive index increase upon UV irradiation and a photosensitivity enhancement during Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) fabrication, wherein the single dopant material comprises at least two phenyl rings linked by a disulfide bridge.
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