TY - JOUR
T1 - Low-loss, single-mode, organic polymer waveguides utilizing refractive index tailoring
AU - Phelps, Christopher W.
AU - Barry, Timothy S.
AU - Rode, Daniel L.
AU - Krchnavek, Robert R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 10, 1996. This work was supported by the Rome Laboratory, Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, NY. The authors are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA (E-mail: [email protected]). Publisher Item Identifier S 0733-8724(97)06659-0.
PY - 1997/10
Y1 - 1997/10
N2 - Low-loss, single-mode optical waveguides have been fabricated from photopolymerizable acrylic monomers. The material system consists of a low-index cladding resin and a high-index core resin. The two resins are miscible so that precise control over the refractive index can be obtained. This allows the fabrication of single-mode waveguides with specific cross-sectional dimensions. One advantage of this is the ability to fabricate waveguides with high coupling efficiencies to other devices such as optical fiber or semiconductor lasers. The materials adhere to a wide variety of substrates and exhibit average waveguide losses of 0.56 dB/cm at 1300 nm for single-mode waveguides. Details of the fabrication procedure, index of refraction tailoring technique, and waveguide loss data are presented.
AB - Low-loss, single-mode optical waveguides have been fabricated from photopolymerizable acrylic monomers. The material system consists of a low-index cladding resin and a high-index core resin. The two resins are miscible so that precise control over the refractive index can be obtained. This allows the fabrication of single-mode waveguides with specific cross-sectional dimensions. One advantage of this is the ability to fabricate waveguides with high coupling efficiencies to other devices such as optical fiber or semiconductor lasers. The materials adhere to a wide variety of substrates and exhibit average waveguide losses of 0.56 dB/cm at 1300 nm for single-mode waveguides. Details of the fabrication procedure, index of refraction tailoring technique, and waveguide loss data are presented.
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U2 - 10.1109/50.633586
DO - 10.1109/50.633586
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031259042
SN - 0733-8724
VL - 15
SP - 1900
EP - 1905
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
IS - 10
ER -