The objective of the thesis is the preparation and study of properties of polymer optical fibres. / The first part of the thesis describes the complete process of making polymer optical fibres from a monomer using styrene as a reagent. A solid preform is obtained from the polymerization before being drawn into a fibre. Once obtained, the fibre is characterized in terms of its chemical (composition), optical (acceptance angle, attenuation, refractive index profile), physical (elongation-to-break) and spectroscopic (Infrared, Raman, NMR) properties. Polarized Raman spectroscopy is employed to analyse the conformation of the polymer molecules in the fibre. The results of the spectroscopic studies show an axial symmetry around the main axis of the fibre. Symmetry is created when the fibre is drawn. / In the second part of the project, styrene is copolymerized with glycidyl methacrylate. The latter has an epoxy group on its side chain that can be polymerized independently from the vinyl group. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.29452 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Lugassy, Cyrille |
| Contributors | Andrews, Mark P. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Chemistry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001956337, proquestno: MQ85803, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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