Title :
Fabrication of low loss polymer waveguides using injection moulding technology
Author :
Neyer, A. ; Muller, Lukas
Author_Institution :
Lehrstuhl fur Hochfrequenztech., Dortmund Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Singlemode polymer waveguides with low transmission loss at 1300 nm are fabricated by using injection moulding as low cost mass replication technology for the fabrication of polymer waveguide substrates. The waveguide pattern is incorporated in the substrates in the form of grooves which are filled by fully deuterated EGDMA. Buried singlemode waveguides have been realised with a transmission loss as low as 0.3 dB/cm at 1300 nm.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical losses; optical waveguides; optical workshop techniques; polymers; 1300 nm; UV light lithography; buried singlemode type; ethyleneglycoldimethacrylate; fabrication; fully deuterated EGDMA; injection moulding technology; low cost mass replication; low loss polymer waveguides; single mode waveguide; transmission loss;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19930268
