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

Volume

18

Issue

21

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2221

Lastpage

2223

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.884268

Filename

1710011