Title :
Photobleaching Fabrication of Microring Resonator in a Chromophore-Containing Polymer
Author :
Zhou, Jun ; Pyayt, Anan ; Dalton, Larry R. ; Luo, Jingdong ; Jen, Alex K-Y. ; Chen, Antao
Author_Institution :
Appl. Phys. Lab., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Abstract :
Photobleaching is demonstrated to be a viable method for the fabrication of polymer waveguide microring resonators for the first time. Resonators made with this simple, one-step fabrication technique have shown extinction ratio and insertion loss better than 15 and 9 dB, respectively. This method does not involve solvents or chemicals and can be used to make microring resonators in polymer thin films that are not compatible with other fabrication techniques, and therefore, can be a useful complement to traditional fabrication methods
Keywords :
integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical polymers; optical resonators; optical saturable absorption; optical waveguides; polymer films; chromophore-containing polymer; extinction ratio; insertion loss; integrated optics; microring resonator; optical fabrication; photobleaching; polymer thin films; polymer waveguide resonators; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical films; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical polymers; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Photobleaching; Integrated optics; microresonators; optical polymers; photobleaching;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.884268
