Replicated polymer optical waveguides

Naru Yasuda; Hayami Hosokawa

doi:10.1117/12.510907

14 August 2003 Replicated polymer optical waveguides

Naru Yasuda, Hayami Hosokawa

Proceedings Volume 5246, Active and Passive Optical Components for WDM Communications III; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.510907
Event: ITCom 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

A novel replication technology for fabricating polymer optical waveguides has been developed and named as SPICA (Stacked Polymer optical IC/Advanced). SPICA is superior to current semiconductor fabrication technology because it satisfies the needs of low-cost and high-volume manufacturing. Furthermore, SPICA can be processed and packaged much like as IC devices by using planar fabrication and batch processing. Using SPICA, a single-mode optical waveguide has been fabricated the optical characteristics of which include insertion loss of less than 0.2 dB/cm. Other functional devices, such as a coupler, tap-coupler, optical switch, VOA (Variable Optical Attenuator) and optical transceiver, were also successfully fabricated.

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Naru Yasuda and Hayami Hosokawa "Replicated polymer optical waveguides", Proc. SPIE 5246, Active and Passive Optical Components for WDM Communications III, (14 August 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.510907

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