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UV curing in an Inert Atmosphere
This video shows MY Polymers low refractive index coating OF-133, being cured inside a Nitrogen chamber on an optical fiber drawing tower. The fiber, that was just coated by the OF-133 is entering the UV curing section. UV curing is done in such inert conditions to minimize Oxygen competition. -
How to coat
This video shows how to produce an even, thickness controlled coating, using simple means -
Low Refractive Index Demo
This video demonstrates the MY-133-V2000 index of 1.33, which is identical to water. The fish was produced by UV curing inside a transparent mold with small grooves, to create opacity that enhances the optical effect.
Technical Support
At MY Polymers - The Low Refractive Index Company, we do our best to be responsive to our customers.
Any technical issue which arises either before or after you get our materials and start working with them can be discussed directly with our technical staff.
Simply press the red button marked ASK A TECHNICAL QUESTION and you'll be asked to describe the issue at hand.
Some technical questions and issues tend to appear more frequently than others.
MAJOR TECHNICAL ISSUES
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Selecting the right product
See our guide
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Curing and Inerting
How to get a good curing? How to get a good inerting and why is this needed?
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Coating
See our video "How to Coat" If you need to fine-tune the coating thickness (or to decrease the viscosity) see How to Dilute |
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Spin Coating
If you plan to do a spin coating click here:
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Refractive Index Vs. Wavelength:
See a typical example - The RI Vs. Wavelength graph for MY-133 See another typical example - The RI Vs. Wavelength graph for LM-145
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Transmission Vs. Wavelength:
See the transmittance curves for 4 materials OF-133-V3, OF-136, OF-1375-A and OF-139-N (they represent other products with the same RI): Transmittance Curves
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RELEVANT PUBLISHED PAPERS
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High-resolution imaging of cellular processes across textured surfaces using an indexed-matched elastomer
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High performance, LED-powered, waveguide-based total internal reflection microscopy
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Easy Fabrication of Thin Membranes with Through Holes. Application to Protein Patterning
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A polymer gel index-matched to water enables diverse applications in fluorescence imaging
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Cascaded Cladding Light Extracting Strippers for High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers
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Soft lithography fabrication of index- matched microfluidic devices for reducing artifacts in fluorescence and quantitative phase imaging
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Direct characterization of the evanescent field in objective- type total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy
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Development of a water refractive index-matched microneedle integrated into a light sheet microscopy system for continuous embryonic cell imaging
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RECOATING MATERIALS |
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Our recoating materials are used intensively in the construction of fiber lasers. Splices which are created during the fiber laser assembly process, have to be recoated. Likewise, each component used in the assembly of a fiber laser has to be recoated and encapsulated by a recoating material.
Currently, the most common optical fibers (both active and passive) use primary coatings with an index of 1.36 (e.g. OF-136), recoating materials with the same index 1.36 are very common in recoating applications. Typically, 1.36 index materials are used for recoating splices, Pump Power Combiners, Couplers, and FBG (Fiber Bragg Gratings).
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OPTICAL FIBER PRIMARY COATINGS (CLADDING RESINS)
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Our Primary Coatings are used by the leading manufacturers of specialty optical fibers. The drawing on the right shows the point in the drawing tower where our primary coatings are applied.
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