Fabrication of a polymer based variable optical attenuator using liquid crystal cladding on inverted channel waveguide structure

Author

Xu, Y. ; Uddin, M.A. ; Chung, P.S. ; Chan, H.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Using nematic liquid crystal as the upper cladding of inverted polymer waveguide structure, we fabricated a variable optical attenuator which exhibited a 24 dB of attenuation range with a tuning range of 10 V_peak at 1550 nm.

Keywords

cladding techniques; electro-optical devices; integrated optics; nematic liquid crystals; optical attenuators; optical fabrication; optical polymers; optical waveguides; electro-optic effect; integrated VOA; inverted channel waveguide structure; inverted polymer waveguide structure; nematic liquid crystal cladding; variable optical attenuator fabrication; wavelength 1550 nm; High speed optical techniques; Liquid crystal polymers; Liquid waveguides; Optical attenuators; Optical device fabrication; Optical polymers; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the

Conference_Location

Sydney

Print_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610426

Filename

4610426