A plastic optical fiber comprising a core and a cladding, wherein the core is made a polymer comprising units of methyl methacrylate and of a methacrylate ester the ester moiety of which has an alicyclic hydrocarbon of 8 to 20 carbon atoms, and the cladding is made of a fluorine-containing polymer comprising units of the formula:
wherein
R1 and R2 are each hydrogen or C, -C3 alkyl, R11 is fluorine or trifluoromethyl, and R12 is C2 - C11 fluoroalkyl, which units (I) are derived from fluoroalkyl a-fluoroacrylate or trifluoromethacrylate, which has short- and long-time heat and humidity resistance as well as low attenuation of light transmission.
一种塑料光纤,包括纤芯和包层,其中纤芯是由
甲基丙烯酸甲酯和
甲基丙烯酸酯单元组成的聚合物,
甲基丙烯酸甲酯的酯基具有 8 至 20 个碳原子的脂
环烃,包层是由含
氟聚合物组成的,含
氟聚合物的单元式如下:
其中
R1和R2分别为氢或C, -C3烷基,R11为
氟或三
氟甲基,R12为C2 - C11氟烷基,其中单元(I)来自氟烷基a-
氟丙烯酸酯或三
氟甲基丙烯酸酯,具有短期和长期的耐热性和耐湿性以及低透光衰减性。