Graded index linear and curved polymer channel waveguide arrays for massively parallel optical interconnects
Abstract
A single-mode polymer-based graded index channel waveguide array with 1250 channels/cm packaging density on a cross-link induced photopolymeric thin film is reported. This array works at 1.31 and 0.63 μm. Curved waveguides with radii of curvature from 1 to 40 mm were demonstrated. Waveguide propagation loss in the neighborhood of 0.1 db/cm was experimentally confirmed at 1.31 μm.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.108264
- Bibcode:
- 1992ApPhL..61.2278C
- Keywords:
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- Joints (Junctions);
- Optical Waveguides;
- Polymeric Films;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Gratings (Spectra);
- Propagation Modes;
- Thin Films;
- Optics