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3D Printing Could Disrupt Status Quo of Optical Fiber Fabrication

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Researchers at Harbin Engineering University and the University of New South Wales demonstrated the additive manufacture of silica optical fiber preforms. According to the research team, additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, could transform the way specialty optical fibers are fabricated. Using digital light processing (DLP) 3D-printing technology, the researchers extended small-scale glass “bulk or slice” printing of optical fiber preforms beyond a few millimeters to the centimeter scale. They constructed single- and multimode optical fibers by controlling the...Read full article

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    Published: April 2022
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