Large-core single-mode rib SU8 waveguide using solvent-assisted microcontact molding

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 4540-4547

  Huang, Cheng Sheng ^a   Wang, Wei Chih ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MOLDING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTORESISTS; SILICONES;

FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; LARGE WAVELENGTH RANGE; MICROSCOPE IMAGES; MOLDING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL SIMULATION; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE STAMPS; SINGLE-MODE RIB WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE MATERIALS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EPOXIDE; POLYMER; SOLVENT; SU 8 COMPOUND; SU-8 COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLVENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 53749105376     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.004540     Document Type: Article

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