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Polymer Waveguide Devices: Status and Trends

With all-optical communication systems penetrating into metro and access networks, the cost reduction becomes now the single important issue for deployment of WDM networks to such areas. Due to different functionalities, ease of fabrication, cost-effectiveness, and compatibility with other materials, polymers are emerging as a new material platform for waveguide and integrated-optical devices. In this paper, the status and the trends of polymeric waveguide materials and different waveguide and integrated-optical devices for optical communications will be reviewed.

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Fabrication of Polymeric Multimode Waveguides for Application in the Local Area Network and Optical Interconnects

We report the fabrication of multimode polymeric waveguides using spin coating, photolithography, and reactive ion etching. Different layer structures have been used, e.g., a UV curable resin is used as a core layer and PMMA as a lower and upper cladding. The layer systems can be spun with good uniformity with thicknesses matching multimode fiber dimensions, and smooth waveguide side-walls have been obtained after etching. The measured performance of these waveguides demonstrates that low-loss waveguides can be fabricated cheaply. The waveguides are used in the realization of novel compact multimode power splitters and star couplers.

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