EO polymer materials and devices: from research to reality

Author

Lytel, Rick

Author_Institution

Akzo Electronic Products Inc., Redwood City, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

25-29 Jul 1994

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

5

Abstract

With further development, electro-optic polymers have the potential to far-out distance inorganic materials in figures-of-merit, and, in fact, already do in some key properties, such as length bandwidth products. Polymers are not likely to ever exhibit insertion loss as low as glass for passive devices. However, intrinsic performance of polymers, measured against other materials, is not sufficient for judging the potential of the technology. Overall production costs, balanced against performance, will determine the utilization of polymer waveguide technologies

Keywords

electro-optical devices; optical losses; optical materials; optical polymers; optical waveguides; EO polymer devices; EO polymer materials; electro optical polymer devices; electro optical polymer materials; figures-of-merit; insertion loss; length bandwidth products; polymer waveguide technologies; Costs; Dielectric materials; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Integrated optics; Optical fiber couplers; Optical materials; Optical waveguides; Packaging; Polymers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 1994. NLO '94 IEEE

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1473-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLO.1994.470901

Filename

470901