Stress-induced polymer waveguides operating at both 1.31 and 1.55 /spl mu/m wavelengths |
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| Authors: | SeongKu Kim Geary K Yuan W Fetterman HR Lee D-G Zhang C Wang C Steier WH Park G-C Gang S-J Oh I |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; |
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| Abstract: | Metal-defined polymer optical waveguides have been demonstrated for the first time. A metal strip patterned on top of a polymer slab waveguide causes a stress-induced refractive index change, providing lateral optical mode confinement within the core layer. Fabricated waveguides exhibit low propagation loss values of 1.1 dB/cm at 1.31 /spl mu/m and 1.3 dB/cm at 1.55 /spl mu/m for both TE and TM polarisations. |
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