Title :
Fabrication of polymeric optical waveguides
Author :
Gang, Shee Yu ; Mohammad, A.B. ; Kassim, Norazan Mohd ; Ibrahim, Mohd Haniff
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia
Abstract :
The paper reports the fabrication of polymeric optical waveguides. Single mode planar slab waveguides and straight waveguides have been fabricated from the organic polymer B-staged bisbenzocyclobutene (BCB) from Dow Chemical. A low cost fabrication method, chemical etching, is used to form the waveguides on BK-7 glass substrates. The processing conditions required for the fabrication of single mode optical waveguides have been thoroughly investigated and are presented.
Keywords :
etching; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical planar waveguides; optical polymers; substrates; B-staged bisbenzocyclobutene; BK-7 glass substrates; chemical etching; polymeric optical waveguide fabrication; single mode optical waveguides; single mode planar slab waveguides; single mode waveguides; straight waveguides; Costs; Etching; Glass; Optical device fabrication; Optical planar waveguides; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Organic chemicals; Planar waveguides; Slabs;
Conference_Titel :
RF and Microwave Conference, 2004. RFM 2004. Proceedings
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8671-X
DOI :
10.1109/RFM.2004.1411122
