TY - CONF A1 - Fasano, A. A1 - Woyessa, G. A1 - Stajanca, Pavol A1 - Markos, C. A1 - Stefani, A. A1 - Nielsen, K. A1 - Rasmussen, H. K. A1 - Krebber, Katerina A1 - Bang, O. T1 - Production and characterization of polycarbonate microstructured polymer optical fiber bragg grating sensor T2 - POF 2015 - 24th International conference on plastic optical fibers (Proceedings) N2 - We present the fabrication and characterization of a polycarbonate (PC) microstructured polymer optical fiber (mPOF) and the writing of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) in it to obtain a polymer optical FBG sen-sor. The manufacturing process of the PC mPOF consists of multiple consecutive stages, such as casting of pol-ymer granulates into a solid rod, machining and drilling of a 3-ring hexagonal lattice of holes into it, and finally drawing into fiber. We demonstrate that the obtained PC mPOF is photosensitive and FBGs can be conveniently inscribed into it, thereby enabling FBG-based temperature and strain sensing. The PC optical fibers are for some applications an attractive alternative to conventional materials used in POF fabrication, such as polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). In general, PC can be used at temperature up to 120 °C and breaks at considerably higher strains than PMMA. T2 - POF 2015 - 24th International conference on plastic optical fibers CY - Nürnberg, Germany DA - 22.09.2015 PY - 2015 SP - 64 EP - 67 AN - OPUS4-34587 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -