Polymeric Optical Waveguide

• IMAMURA Saburo

  NTT Advanced Technology

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• ポリマー光導波路
• ポリマー ヒカリ ドウハロ

Abstract

Polymer materials offer a number of interesting features for the fabrication of optical waveguides. Potential applications and market opportunities continue to grow for low cost, reliable, passive and active components for telecommunication and data-communication. Organic polymers have attracted a lot of attention due to their ease of fabrication and structural flexibility. These are important factors with regard to their use as packaging and optical interconnects. In addition, the thermo-optic (TO) coefficient of polymers is an order of magnitude larger than that of silica glass and some non-aromatic polymers have very low birefringence. These are desirable characteristics in terms of their application to such optical integrated devices as TO switches. The applications for polymer waveguides are therefore divided into two categories. The first comprises optical packaging and interconnects and the second, optical integrated devices. This paper presents the requirements for polymer waveguides and describes some work which was carried out with our materials and fabrication technique.

Journal

• The Review of Laser Engineering

  The Review of Laser Engineering 32 (9), 581-585, 2004

  The Laser Society of Japan

Keywords

• Polymer
• Direct patterning
• Optical interconnection
• Film waveguide
• Flexible waveguide

Details

• CRID: 1390001204645945472
• NII Article ID: 10013577856
• NII Book ID: AN00255326
• DOI: 10.2184/lsj.32.581
• COI: 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2cXptVKhsb8%3D
• ISSN: 13496603
• ISSN: 03870200
• NDL BIB ID: 7096770
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I7096770
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/lsj/32/9/32_9_581/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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