Title :
Low loss Chalcogenide glass waveguides fabricated by hot embossing
Author :
Ting Han ; Madden, S. ; Bulla, D. ; Luther-Davies, Barry
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
We report the fabrication of Chalcogenide glass rib waveguides by thermal nano-imprint. Waveguides 2-4μm wide and 1μm high were fabricated with optical losses of 0.24dB/cm and 0.29dB/cm for TM and TE polarizations at 1550nm.
Keywords :
chalcogenide glasses; embossing; light polarisation; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical waveguides; rib waveguides; hot embossing; low loss chalcogenide glass waveguide; rib waveguides; size 1 mum; size 2 mum to 4 mum; thermal nanoimprint; transverse electric polarization; transverse magnetic polarization; wavelength 1550 nm; Glass; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical films; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Chalcogenide; PDMS; hot embossing; nanoimprint; waveguide;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), 2010 35th Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
DOI :
10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929910
