| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/M020916/1 |
| Title: |
Novel Multiple Materials Additive Manufacturing Instrument for New Generation of Optical fibre Fabrication |
| Principal Investigator: |
Sahu, Professor J |
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| Department: |
Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) |
| Organisation: |
University of Southampton |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
01 August 2015 |
Ends: |
31 January 2019 |
Value (£): |
700,271
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Manufacturing Machine & Plant |
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| Panel History: |
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21 Jan 2015
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Manufacturing Inst. FULLS
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Announced
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
In this proposal we will design, fabricate and employ a novel multiple materials additive manufacturing (MMAM) equipment
to enable us to make optical fibre preforms (both in conventional and microstructured fibre geometries) in silica and other
host glass materials. In existing low-loss fibre preform fabrication methods, based on either chemical vapour deposition
technique for conventional solid index guiding fibres or 'stack and draw' process for micro-structured fibre, it is very difficult
to control composition in 3D. Our proposed MMAM can be utilised to produce complex preforms, which is otherwise too
difficult or time consuming or currently impossible to achieve by the existing fabrication techniques. This will open up a
route to manufacture novel fibre structures in silica and other glasses for a wide range of applications, covering from
telecommunications, sensing, lab-in-a-fibre, metamaterial fibre, to high-power laser, and subsequently we are expected to
gain significant economic growth in the future.
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.soton.ac.uk |