Title :
Stress-induced polymer waveguides operating at both 1.31 and 1.55 μm wavelengths
Author :
Kim, Seongku ; Geary, K. ; Yuan, W. ; Fetterman, H.R. ; Lee, D.-G. ; Zhang, C. ; Wang, C. ; Steier, W.H. ; Park, G.-C. ; Gang, S.-J. ; Oh, I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
7/8/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Metal-defined polymer optical waveguides have been demonstrated for the first time. A metal strip patterned on top of a polymer slab waveguide causes a stress-induced refractive index change, providing lateral optical mode confinement within the core layer. Fabricated waveguides exhibit low propagation loss values of 1.1 dB/cm at 1.31 μm and 1.3 dB/cm at 1.55 μm for both TE and TM polarisations.
Keywords :
optical losses; optical polymers; optical waveguides; refractive index; 1.31 micron; 1.55 micron; TE polarisations; TM polarisations; metal defined polymer optical waveguides; metal strip; optical mode confinement; polymer slab waveguide; refractive index; stress induced polymer waveguides;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20040561
