• DocumentCode
    1704490
  • 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
  • fYear
    2004
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Electronics, 2004. ICSE 2004. IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8658-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SMELEC.2004.1620928
  • Filename
    1620928