Polymeric materials for guided wave devices

Karl W. Beeson; Keith A. Horn; Michael J. McFarland; Ajay Nahata; Chengjiu Wu; James T. Yardley

doi:10.1117/12.22946

1 December 1990 Polymeric materials for guided wave devices

Karl W. Beeson, Keith A. Horn, Michael J. McFarland, Ajay Nahata, Chengjiu Wu, James T. Yardley

Proceedings Volume 1337, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials III; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.22946
Event: 34th Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1990, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Organic polymeric materials offer great promise for the creation ofoptical guided-wave structures for use with silicon or gallium arsenide semiconductor devices. We have developed a number of new polymeric materials for which the refractive index may be photochemically controlled. These materials are ifiustrated by solid solutions of novel nitrone compounds in polymer hosts such as PMMA. We have demonstrated the creation of planar guided-wave structures in these materials both with direct laser writing and with traditional photolithographic techniques. We have also developed polymeric materials which are electro-optically active and which provide for the photochemical delineation ofguided-wave structures. We have utilized these materials to create electro-optic devices such as optical modulators.

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Karl W. Beeson, Keith A. Horn, Michael J. McFarland, Ajay Nahata, Chengjiu Wu, and James T. Yardley "Polymeric materials for guided wave devices", Proc. SPIE 1337, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials III, (1 December 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.22946

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