Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers
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Author(s)
Ghebrebrhan, Michael
Loke, Gabriel
Fink, Yoel
Date Issued
July 2019
Journal
Optical Materials Express
Publisher
The Optical Society
Citation
Ghebrebrhan, Michael et al., "Fabrication and measurement of 3D printed retroreflective fibers ." Optical Materials Express 9, 8 (August 2019): 3432-38 ©2019 Authors
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Abstract
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.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.9.003432
