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Optical and thermal properties of methyl methacrylate and pentafluorophenyl methacrylate copolymer: Design of copolymers for low-loss optical fibers for gigabit in-home communications
Authors:Kotaro Koike  Takahiro Kado  Zen Satoh  Yoshiyuki Okamoto  Yasuhiro Koike
Affiliation:a Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama 223-0061, Japan
b Koike Photonics Polymer Project, ERATO-SORST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Shinkawasaki Town Campus, 7-1 Shinkawasaki, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki 212-0032, Japan
c Polymer Research Institute, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
Abstract:As a novel base material for low-loss graded index plastic optical fibers (GI POFs) in gigabit home networks, a copolymer of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and pentafluorophenyl methacrylate (PFPMA) was prepared and its thermal and optical properties were investigated. When the PFPMA content in the monomer feed was 0-50 mol%, both the glass transition temperature (Tg) and the decomposition temperature of the copolymer were higher than that for PMMA, which is the base material for many commercially available POFs. The transmittance of the copolymer was also found to be higher than that of PMMA since it has fewer C-H bonds per unit volume. As the core material of GI POFs, MMA-co-PFPMA (65/35 mol%), which had the highest Tg of 118 °C was utilized. A low-loss GI POF with an attenuation of 172-185 dB/km at the emission wavelengths of a high-speed light source (670-680 nm) was successfully obtained for the first time.
Keywords:Graded index plastic optical fiber  Copolymerization  Pentafluorophenyl methacrylate
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