Polymer waveguides and modulators for optical interconnects

Author

Ma, Jiong ; Feuerstein, Robert J. ; Mickelson, Alan R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

30-31 Oct 1995

Firstpage

189

Abstract

Electro-optic (EO) polymers are attractive for passive and active interconnections in electronic systems because they are compatible with standard processing and packaging conditions. We have an ongoing program to develop high temperature EO polymers jointly with the IBM Almaden Research Center. This effort is aimed at investigating various polymer backbone systems with both guest host and side chained active materials, in an effort to improve their temperature stability, EO coefficient, ease of processing, and device characteristics. The work is concentrated on directional coupler devices, fabricated from these materials

Keywords

electro-optical devices; electro-optical modulation; optical directional couplers; optical interconnections; optical polymers; directional coupler devices; electro-optic coefficient; guest host polymers; high temperature electro-optic polymers; modulators; optical interconnects; processing; side chain polymers; temperature stability; waveguides; Electronics packaging; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Spine; Stability; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2450-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1995.484828

Filename

484828