Two-photon patterning of optical waveguides in flexible polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7413, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bichler, Sabine ^a   Feldbacher, Sonja ^a   Woods, Rachel ^a   Satzinger, Valentin ^b   Schmidt, Volker ^b   Jakopic, Georg ^b   Langer, Gregor ^c   Kern, Wolfgang ^d  

^a POLYMER COMPETENCE CENTER LEOBEN GMBH   (Austria)

^b JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Polymer based optical waveguides; Polysiloxane matrix; Two photon induced polymerization

Indexed keywords

3D MICROSTRUCTURES; CORE MATERIAL; CUT BACK; DATA TRANSMISSION; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; INTERPENETRATING NETWORKS; LASER EXPOSURE; LIGHT EXTRACTION; MATRIX; OPTICAL MATRIX; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PHASE-CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHOTOINDUCED POLYMERIZATION; POLYMER BASED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYSILOXANE MATRIX; POLYSILOXANES; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; THERMAL STABILITY; TWO - PHOTON INDUCED POLYMERIZATION; TWO PHOTON; UV IRRADIATION; VACUUM PROCESS; WAVEGUIDE CORE; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; COREMAKING; DISSOLUTION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONOMERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILANES; SILICONES; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 70449441471     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.828393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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