Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers
Additive manufacturing enables new fiber preform geometries to be built that were either impossible or extremely difficult with traditional subtractive manufacturing methods. Additionally fiber thermal drawing is undergoing an explosion of interest due to new materials and fiber functions. We fabric...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
The Optical Society
2021
|
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130115 |
| _version_ | 1826200413576101888 |
|---|---|
| author | Ghebrebrhan, Michael Loke, Gabriel Fink, Yoel |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Ghebrebrhan, Michael Loke, Gabriel Fink, Yoel |
| author_sort | Ghebrebrhan, Michael |
| collection | MIT |
| description | Additive manufacturing enables new fiber preform geometries to be built that were either impossible or extremely difficult with traditional subtractive manufacturing methods. Additionally fiber thermal drawing is undergoing an explosion of interest due to new materials and fiber functions. We fabricate a retroreflective fiber that possesses a complex cross-section and material combination not achievable with other textile fiber fabrication methods such melt extrusion. This is the first such 3D-printing-derived fiber to demonstrate optical scattering properties with a non-circular, non-convex cross-section. ©2019 Optical Society of America. |
| first_indexed | 2024-09-23T11:36:01Z |
| format | Article |
| id | mit-1721.1/130115 |
| institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-09-23T11:36:01Z |
| publishDate | 2021 |
| publisher | The Optical Society |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | mit-1721.1/1301152022-10-01T04:43:29Z Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers Ghebrebrhan, Michael Loke, Gabriel Fink, Yoel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Additive manufacturing enables new fiber preform geometries to be built that were either impossible or extremely difficult with traditional subtractive manufacturing methods. Additionally fiber thermal drawing is undergoing an explosion of interest due to new materials and fiber functions. We fabricate a retroreflective fiber that possesses a complex cross-section and material combination not achievable with other textile fiber fabrication methods such melt extrusion. This is the first such 3D-printing-derived fiber to demonstrate optical scattering properties with a non-circular, non-convex cross-section. ©2019 Optical Society of America. NSF (DMR-1419807) Army Research Office (W911NF-13-D-0001) 2021-03-09T23:49:24Z 2021-03-09T23:49:24Z 2019-07 2019-07 2019-09-18T15:01:29Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2159-3930 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130115 Ghebrebrhan, Michael et al., "Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers ." Optical Materials Express 9, 8 (August 2019): 3432-38 ©2019 Authors en https://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OME.9.003432 Optical Materials Express Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf The Optical Society OSA Publishing |
| spellingShingle | Ghebrebrhan, Michael Loke, Gabriel Fink, Yoel Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers |
| title | Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers |
| title_full | Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers |
| title_fullStr | Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers |
| title_short | Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers |
| title_sort | fabrication and measurement of 3d printed retroreflective fibers |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130115 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT ghebrebrhanmichael fabricationandmeasurementof3dprintedretroreflectivefibers AT lokegabriel fabricationandmeasurementof3dprintedretroreflectivefibers AT finkyoel fabricationandmeasurementof3dprintedretroreflectivefibers |