• DocumentCode
    520587
  • Title

    Nanoporous polymer liquid core waveguides

  • Author

    Gopalakrishnan, Nimi ; Christiansen, Mads B. ; Ndoni, Sokol ; Kristensen, Anders ; Sagar, Kaushal S. ; Vigild, Martin E.

  • Author_Institution
    DTU Nanotech, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate liquid core waveguides defined by UV to enable selective water infiltration in nanoporous polymers, creating an effective refractive index shift Δn=0.13. The mode confinement and propagation loss in these waveguides are presented.
  • Keywords
    Biomedical optical imaging; Etching; Liquid waveguides; Nanoporous materials; Optical polymers; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Self-assembly;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500172