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Polymer-ridge Waveguide Fabrication by Gas-assisted UV Embossing with a Soft Mold

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International Polymer Processing
From the journal International Polymer Processing Volume 23 Issue 3

Abstract

This paper reports a new process for the fabrication of polymer optical waveguides using gas-assisted UV embossing. A polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) mold with a multimode waveguide array was made by casting a pre-polymer of PDMS against a plastic master of a waveguide array. The plastic master was prepared using gas-assisted hot embossing of polycarbonate (PC) film over a Si mold with the waveguide array. In this study, well-defined patterns with fine roughness for the multi-mode waveguides (125 μm × 80 μm) were successfully fabricated. The residual layer was thin and uniform. The replication quality, surface roughness and optical property of the replicated waveguides were measured and proved satisfactory. The average propagation loss of the waveguides was 0.88 dB/cm at a 1310 nm wavelength. The results indicate that the proposed method is likely to be a promising technique for the fabrication of optical waveguides.

∗ Mail address: Sen-Yeu Yang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. E-mail:

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Received: 2007-9-19
Accepted: 2008-4-4
Published Online: 2013-03-26
Published in Print: 2008-07-01

© 2008, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich

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https://doi.org/10.3139/217.2138

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Contents
  2. Contents
  3. Regular Contributed Articles
  4. 10.3139/217.0979
  5. Polymer Plastication during Injection Molding
  6. Polymer Plastication during Injection Molding
  7. Challenges to the Formation of Nano-cells in Foaming Processes
  8. Manufacture of Spinnerets for Synthetic Micro-fibers by LIGA and Micro-injection Molding Technique
  9. Study of Solid-plug Conveying in a Centrifugal Extruder
  10. Experimental Study on the Sliding Friction and Wear Characteristics of Roller Burnished Polymers
  11. Studying the Effective Thermal Properties of Solids in Extrusion Machinery using a Discrete Particle Simulation Approach
  12. Polymer-ridge Waveguide Fabrication by Gas-assisted UV Embossing with a Soft Mold
  13. Rheological Behavior of Immiscible PS/PMMA Blends during Dynamic Plasticating Extrusion
  14. Rapid Fabrication of Microstructures onto Plastic Substrates by Infrared Hot Embossing
  15. Design of Calibrators for Profile Extrusion – Optimizing Multi-step Systems
  16. Inhibition of Thermal Oxidation Destruction of PBT/HDPE Blends by Organic Compounds of Five-valent Phosphorus
  17. Non-isothermal Model for the Drive Power Calculation of Single-screw Plasticating Units
  18. PPS News
  19. PPS News
  20. Seikei-Kakou Abstracts
  21. Seikei-Kakou Abstracts
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