Design and fabrication of an acrylic-based 1X2 POF coupler using CNC Machining

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Ehsan, Abang Annuar [1 ,2 ]
Shaari, Sahbudin [1 ]
Rahman, Mohd Kamil Abd [2 ]
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[1] Univ Kebangsaan Malaysia, IMEN, Bangi 43600, Selangor, Malaysia
[2] Univ Teknol MARA, Fac Sci Appl, Shah Alam 40450, Selangor, Malaysia
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A low cost acrylic-based 1X2 Plastic optical fiber (POF) coupler has been designed and fabricated. The POF coupler has a middle waveguide taper made of UV curable glue and POF fibers for the input and output ports. Non-sequential ray tracing has been performed on the POF coupler. Mold insert has been fabricated using EGX-400 desktop CNC machining with a groove opening of I mm which allows the I mm core size POF to be slotted into the mold insert. Norland NOA-71 UV curable glue is injected into the waveguide taper region and cured using UV exposure source. The device has an insertion loss of 8 dB and excess loss of about 4.6 dB.
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