Dear Editor Silica optical fibers have attracted a lot of attention because they are widely used in communications and sensing,and forming today’s internet backbone.Driving much of the Internet-of-Things(IoT)evolutio...Dear Editor Silica optical fibers have attracted a lot of attention because they are widely used in communications and sensing,and forming today’s internet backbone.Driving much of the Internet-of-Things(IoT)evolution,optical fibers are expanding from a single function transmission technology to perform multiple functions and a growing need for various custom-design application-specific optical fibers.Current optical fiber manufacturing based on chemical vapor deposition(CVD)technologies together with stack-and-draw approaches used for structured optical fibers faces numerous challenges in enabling more complex geometries multimaterial composite fibers and multicore fibers.The additive manufacturing,or 3D printing,offers a solution to address all those challenges,and may potentially disrupt the optical fibers fabrication and bring in an evolution to IoT.展开更多
基金Authors are thankful for the two LIEF grants(LE0883038 and LE100100098)by Australian Research Council(ARC)to fund the National Fiber Facility at UNSW,SydneyThe National Science Foundation of China for grant(61775045)+2 种基金The Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China for grant(62105078)The Youth Program of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China for grant(ZR2021QF009)support of the China Scholarship Council(CSC No.201706680054 and 201708130199)。
文摘Dear Editor Silica optical fibers have attracted a lot of attention because they are widely used in communications and sensing,and forming today’s internet backbone.Driving much of the Internet-of-Things(IoT)evolution,optical fibers are expanding from a single function transmission technology to perform multiple functions and a growing need for various custom-design application-specific optical fibers.Current optical fiber manufacturing based on chemical vapor deposition(CVD)technologies together with stack-and-draw approaches used for structured optical fibers faces numerous challenges in enabling more complex geometries multimaterial composite fibers and multicore fibers.The additive manufacturing,or 3D printing,offers a solution to address all those challenges,and may potentially disrupt the optical fibers fabrication and bring in an evolution to IoT.
