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Optical Fiber Grating-Prism Fabrication by Imprint Patterning of Ionic-Liquid-Based Resist

We present a method of microstructure fabrication on the tip of the optical fiber using a UV soft-imprint process of polymerizable ionic liquid-based optical resist. Ionic liquid with two UV-sensitive vinylbenzyl groups in the structure was diluted in non-hazardous propylene glycol (PG) to obtain li...

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Autores principales: Turek, Natalia, Pala, Piotr, Szpecht, Andrea, Zając, Adrian, Sembratowicz, Teresa, Martynkien, Tadeusz, Śmiglak, Marcin, Komorowska, Katarzyna
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9865067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36674882
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24021370
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author Turek, Natalia
Pala, Piotr
Szpecht, Andrea
Zając, Adrian
Sembratowicz, Teresa
Martynkien, Tadeusz
Śmiglak, Marcin
Komorowska, Katarzyna
author_facet Turek, Natalia
Pala, Piotr
Szpecht, Andrea
Zając, Adrian
Sembratowicz, Teresa
Martynkien, Tadeusz
Śmiglak, Marcin
Komorowska, Katarzyna
author_sort Turek, Natalia
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description We present a method of microstructure fabrication on the tip of the optical fiber using a UV soft-imprint process of polymerizable ionic liquid-based optical resist. Ionic liquid with two UV-sensitive vinylbenzyl groups in the structure was diluted in non-hazardous propylene glycol (PG) to obtain liquid material for imprinting. No additional organic solvent was required. The impact of propylene glycol amount and exposure dose on optical and mechanical properties was investigated. The final procedure of the UV imprint on the optical fiber tip was developed, including the mold preparation, setup building, UV exposure and post-laser cure. As the IL-containing vinylbenzyl groups can also be polymerized by the radical rearrangement of double bonds through thermal heating, the influence of the addition of 1–2% BHT polymerization inhibitor was verified. As a result, we present the fabricated diffraction gratings and the optical fiber spectrometer component—grism (grating-prism), which allows obtaining a dispersion spectrum at the output of an optical in line with the optical fiber long axis, as the main component in an optical fiber spectrometer. The process is very simple due to the fact that its optimization already starts in the process of molecule design, which is part of the trend of sustainable technologies. The final material can be designed by the tailoring of the anion and/or cation molecule, which in turn can lead to a more efficient fabrication procedure and additional functionalities of the final structure.
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spelling pubmed-98650672023-01-22 Optical Fiber Grating-Prism Fabrication by Imprint Patterning of Ionic-Liquid-Based Resist Turek, Natalia Pala, Piotr Szpecht, Andrea Zając, Adrian Sembratowicz, Teresa Martynkien, Tadeusz Śmiglak, Marcin Komorowska, Katarzyna Int J Mol Sci Article We present a method of microstructure fabrication on the tip of the optical fiber using a UV soft-imprint process of polymerizable ionic liquid-based optical resist. Ionic liquid with two UV-sensitive vinylbenzyl groups in the structure was diluted in non-hazardous propylene glycol (PG) to obtain liquid material for imprinting. No additional organic solvent was required. The impact of propylene glycol amount and exposure dose on optical and mechanical properties was investigated. The final procedure of the UV imprint on the optical fiber tip was developed, including the mold preparation, setup building, UV exposure and post-laser cure. As the IL-containing vinylbenzyl groups can also be polymerized by the radical rearrangement of double bonds through thermal heating, the influence of the addition of 1–2% BHT polymerization inhibitor was verified. As a result, we present the fabricated diffraction gratings and the optical fiber spectrometer component—grism (grating-prism), which allows obtaining a dispersion spectrum at the output of an optical in line with the optical fiber long axis, as the main component in an optical fiber spectrometer. The process is very simple due to the fact that its optimization already starts in the process of molecule design, which is part of the trend of sustainable technologies. The final material can be designed by the tailoring of the anion and/or cation molecule, which in turn can lead to a more efficient fabrication procedure and additional functionalities of the final structure. MDPI 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9865067/ /pubmed/36674882 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24021370 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Turek, Natalia
Pala, Piotr
Szpecht, Andrea
Zając, Adrian
Sembratowicz, Teresa
Martynkien, Tadeusz
Śmiglak, Marcin
Komorowska, Katarzyna
Optical Fiber Grating-Prism Fabrication by Imprint Patterning of Ionic-Liquid-Based Resist
title Optical Fiber Grating-Prism Fabrication by Imprint Patterning of Ionic-Liquid-Based Resist
title_full Optical Fiber Grating-Prism Fabrication by Imprint Patterning of Ionic-Liquid-Based Resist
title_fullStr Optical Fiber Grating-Prism Fabrication by Imprint Patterning of Ionic-Liquid-Based Resist
title_full_unstemmed Optical Fiber Grating-Prism Fabrication by Imprint Patterning of Ionic-Liquid-Based Resist
title_short Optical Fiber Grating-Prism Fabrication by Imprint Patterning of Ionic-Liquid-Based Resist
title_sort optical fiber grating-prism fabrication by imprint patterning of ionic-liquid-based resist
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9865067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36674882
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24021370
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