DocumentCode
1927256
Title
Integrated polymer microlenses for two-dimensional collimation of light from single-mode optical waveguides
Author
Chang, Ly-Yu ; Ismail, Nur ; de Ridder, R.M. ; Pollnau, Markus ; Worhoff, K.
Author_Institution
Integrated Opt. Microsyst. Group, Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
fYear
2013
fDate
12-16 May 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
In this work, we demonstrate an on-chip reflowed polymer microlens design to enable light collimation in both, horizontal and vertical directions, and the experimental results show reduction of the divergence angle by a factor of 25.
Keywords
integrated optics; microlenses; optical collimators; optical polymers; optical waveguides; divergence angle; horizontal directions; integrated polymer microlenses; on-chip reflowed polymer microlen design; single-mode optical waveguides; two-dimensional light collimation; vertical directions; Integrated optics; Lenses; Microoptics; Optical device fabrication; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location
Munich
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-0593-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801413
Filename
6801413
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