Polymer waveguides useful over a very wide wavelength range from the ultraviolet to infrared

Y. G. Zhao; W. K. Lu; Y. Ma; S. S. Kim; S. T. Ho; T. J. Marks

doi:10.1063/1.1323547

Polymer waveguides useful over a very wide wavelength range from the ultraviolet to infrared

Y. G. Zhao, W. K. Lu, Y. Ma, S. S. Kim, S. T. Ho, T. J. Marks

Northwestern University

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Abstract

We have designed and fabricated polymer waveguides using the glassy polymers Cytop™ (a fluorinated polyether), PMMA C₆ [poly(methyl methacrylate)], and Cyclotene™ 3022-35 (bisbenzocyclobutane). Since these materials exhibit excellent transparency over a wide wavelength range, and since the refractive index difference of Cytop™ and Cyclotene™ or Cytop™ and PMMA is greater than 0.19, both Cytop™/Cyclotene™/Cytop™ and Cytop™/PMMA/Cytop™ waveguide structures can be employed over a very wide wavelength range from the ultraviolet to the infrared. Efficient waveguiding is achieved for different light sources with 390, 633, 1064, 1310, and 1550 nm wavelengths.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2961-2963
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	77
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1323547
Publication status	Published - Nov 6 2000

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