Manufacturing of extremely narrow polymer fibers by non-diffracting beams

Jan Ježek; Tomáš Čižmár; Pavel Zemánek

doi:10.1117/12.739498

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12 April 2007 Manufacturing of extremely narrow polymer fibers by non-diffracting beams

Jan Ježek, Tomáš Čižmár, Pavel Zemánek

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Proceedings Volume 6609, 15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 66090J (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.739498
Event: 15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2006, Liberec, Czech Republic

Abstract

We present an experimental way how to produce extremely narrow polymer fibers using photopolymerization. Such fibers solidify in the high intensity regions of nondiffracting zero-order Bessel beam from the solution of UV cured resin. Bessel Beams are particularly suitable for this purpose because of their narrow high intensity core and long axial region of uniform intensity. The width of the created polymer fiber is strongly dependent on the properties of the Bessel beam, used laser power and curing time. Fibers wide 2 μm were created and their length exceeded 1 cm. This length several times exceeded the axial region of the Bessel beam existence due to self-writing waveguide mechanism.

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Jan Ježek, Tomáš Čižmár, and Pavel Zemánek "Manufacturing of extremely narrow polymer fibers by non-diffracting beams", Proc. SPIE 6609, 15th Czech-Polish-Slovak Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 66090J (12 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.739498

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