Title :
Optical waveguide polymer curing study using FTIR spectroscopy
Author :
Kuang, Chong Siew ; Yee, Wong Yuen ; Shaari, Sahbudin
Author_Institution :
Photonics Technol. Lab., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Abstract :
The UV polymerization of perfluorinated acrylic polymer for optical waveguide was studied by FTIR spectroscopy. 15 μm of ZPU12-450 and 6 μm of ZPU12-456 required 8 and 3 minutes repectively to be fully UV cured with low intensity of 14 mW/cm-2 at room temperature in the presence of nitrogen flowing. These results showed that delay of curing reaction with increasing depth in the coating. Besides, UV induced polymerization is found faster than thermal curing reaction.
Keywords :
Fourier transform spectroscopy; curing; infrared spectroscopy; nitrogen; optical polymers; optical waveguides; polymerisation; 15 micron; 3 mins; 6 micron; 8 mins; FTIR spectroscopy; N; UV curing process; UV polymerization; optical waveguide; perfluorinated acrylic polymer; polymer curing; Coatings; Curing; Optical devices; Optical interconnections; Optical polymers; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Resins; Silicon compounds; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Electronics, 2004. ICSE 2004. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8658-2
DOI :
10.1109/SMELEC.2004.1620928
