Design of Topas microstructured fiber with ultra-flattened chromatic dispersion and high birefringence

A microstructured polymer optical fiber (mPOF) with both ultra-flattened near-zero chromatic dispersion and high birefringence based on Topas cyclic olefin copolymer is designed. Three rings of uniform elliptical air holes are arranged in triangular lattice in the cladding and an extra small defected hole is introduced in the fiber core. Guided modes, dispersion, birefringence and mode confinement properties of the designed mPOF are investigated by using the full-vector finite element method. Dispersion values between ± 0.5 ps/km/nm over the wavelength 1.1-1.7 μm and high birefringence of the order of 10⁻³ are obtained for the optimized fiber structure. Low confinement losses and small effective mode area are obtained at the same time. The relatively simple architecture of the proposed Topas mPOF can be fabricated by our extrusion-stretching techniques.     

MCE‐electrochemical detection for following interactions of ssDNA and dsDNA with methylene blue

The interaction between the organic dye, methylene blue and DNA has been studied by MCE with electrochemical detection. Interaction produces two different signals, one corresponding to free methylene blue and other, for the complex methylene blue–DNA. The hybridization between a ssDNA and a complementary sequence, specific to the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus, has been performed and studied in a thermoplastic olefin polymer of amorphous structure CE‐microchip with an end‐channel gold wire detector. Moreover, studies with a longer dsDNA, an expression vector involved in the transitory or stable expression in mammals cells, pFLAG‐CMV4, has also been performed.     

低损耗高双折射太赫兹Topas光子带隙光纤

以太赫兹低损耗聚合物材料Topas环烯烃共聚物为基材,设计了一种带隙型光子晶体光纤.光纤由三角形排列的圆角正六边形空气孔构成包层,缺失四个近邻空气孔构成近菱形的二重对称空气芯.采用有限元法分析了该光纤在太赫兹波段的传输特性.结果表明:在1.5THz附近约0.3THz的宽频范围内存在光子带隙,光纤可以基于光子带隙效应将太赫兹波束缚在空气芯中传输.在1.4~1.6THz范围内具有10-3数量级的高双折射;x偏振基模和y偏振基模的损耗都小于0.1cm-1,分别在1.53THz和1.5THz处达到最小值0.029 1cm-1和0.028 7cm-1.所设计的太赫兹Topas光子带隙光纤具备结构简单、易制备、直径小而易弯曲的特点.     

新型光学聚合物——Topas环烯烃共聚物微结构光纤的设计及特性分析

以新型光学聚合物Topas 环烯烃共聚物（折射率为1.53）为基质,设计了四种微结构聚合物光纤.应用有限元方法对各种光纤在波长0.5—2.0 μm范围内的基模有效折射率、模场面积和数值孔径进行了计算.研究了结构参数对模场分布、单模特性和色散特性的影响.得出了具有极大/小模场面积、无限单模传输和平坦近零色散的光纤结构参数.与石英、聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯基质的微结构光纤相比,该光纤具有更大的数值孔径和较宽的平坦近零色散范围.为光纤的制备提供了理论指导. 关键词： 微结构聚合物光纤 有限元方法 传输特性 Topas 环烯烃共聚物