Fabrication And Characterisation Of Processable Polydiacetylene Waveguides

S. Mann; A. R. Oldroyd; D. Bloor; D. J. Ando; P. J. Wells

doi:10.1117/12.948238

21 December 1988 Fabrication And Characterisation Of Processable Polydiacetylene Waveguides

S. Mann, A. R. Oldroyd, D. Bloor, D. J. Ando, P. J. Wells

Proceedings Volume 0971, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948238
Event: 32nd Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1988, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The synthesis of a new class of soluble polydiacetylenes is reported. Large area films of one of this class, 9-SMBU, have been formed by deposition from solution. The non-linearity of films of 9-SMBU has been measured by THG and demonstrates the trade-off between processability and non-linearity. The material was also deposited in channels etched in Si0xNy substrates and we have demonstrated, for the first time, channel optical waveguiding in a non-linear polydiacetylene material. Linear optical characterisation of these channels has been carried out at a laser wavelength of 1.3 μm. These waveguides should allow demonstrations of all-optical non-linear effects in guided wave devices.

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S. Mann, A. R. Oldroyd, D. Bloor, D. J. Ando, and P. J. Wells "Fabrication And Characterisation Of Processable Polydiacetylene Waveguides", Proc. SPIE 0971, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials, (21 December 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948238

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