@inproceedings{72b28c407d3443f39ec5e0e16658babb,
title = "Polymeric components for telecom and datacom",
abstract = "Polymeric optical waveguide components offer attractive properties for applications in optical telecom and datacom systems. These are high speed for electro-optic modulators, low power dissipation for thermo-optic (digital) switches and low-cost for all active and passive components. We report on active and passive components realized by utilizing polymer-specific attractive techniques such as planarizing spincoating, low-temperature reflowing and direct photodefinition. Examples are multimode photodefined passive polymeric waveguides for optical interconnect applications; photodefined monomode polymeric waveguides loaded with rare-earth doped nanoparticles for planar waveguide amplifiers and with non-linear chromophores for electro-optic modulators. We will show that polymer waveguide technology allows vertical stacking of electro-optic microringresonators with their port waveguides to realize high-speed modulators. By reflowing the reactive-ion-etched microring we could reduce the scattering by wall roughness considerably. Thermo-optic polymeric microringresonators combine the high thermo-optic coefficient and low thermal conductivity of polymers with the small size of the microring. It will be shown that this yields a broad wavelength tuning range at low power dissipation.",
keywords = "IR-62271, METIS-228205, IOMS-PIT: PHOTONICS INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY, EWI-12347",
author = "Mart Diemeer and R. Dekker and L.T.H. Hilderink and Arne Leinse and M. Balakrishnan and M. Faccini and A. Driessen",
year = "2005",
month = sep,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1117/12.626830",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "0-8194-5963-1",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
pages = "5956OS--1",
editor = "Paul Lambeck and Christophe Gorecki and Tadeusz Pustelny",
booktitle = "Integrated Optics: Theory and Applications",
note = "null ; Conference date: 01-08-2005 Through 01-08-2005",
}