Laser ablation of nonlinear-optical polymers to define low-loss optical channel waveguides

Chon, Joseph C.; Comita, Paul B.

doi:10.1364/ol.19.001840

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“…This brief survey suggests that UV ablation is potentially ideal for patterning selfassembled polymer films. However, to the best of our knowledge, only one paper [28] has ever utilized laser ablation to fabricate channel waveguides containing nonlinear polymers. However, the nonlinear optical properties of the channel waveguides were not characterized.…”

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Fabrication and characterization of periodically patterned silica fiber structures for enhanced second-order nonlinearity

et al. 2015

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We develop and characterize a UV ablation technique that can be used to pattern soft materials such as polymers and nonlinear molecules self-assembled over silica microstructures. Using this method, we fabricate a spatially periodic coating of nonlinear film over a thin silica fiber taper for second harmonic generation (SHG). Experimentally, we find that the second harmonic signal produced by the taper with periodic nonlinear coating is 15 times stronger than the same taper with uniform nonlinear coating, which suggests that quasi-phase-matching is at least partially achieved in the patterned nonlinear silica taper. The same technique can also be used to spatially pattern other types of functional nanomaterials over silica microstructures with curved surfaces, as demonstrated by deposition of gold nanoparticles in patterned structures.

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Fabrication and characterization of periodically patterned silica fiber structures for enhanced second-order nonlinearity

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“…To realize high speed in these substrates, it is essential to develop processes for the integration of high speed optics. Several technologies have been developed such as photolithography [5], reactive ion etch (RIE) [6], laser ablation [7], molding/embossing [8], lamination [9], and monomers diffusion [10], etc., to define optical waveguides. As an example, integration of optical waveguides and passive polymer devices on high density PCB substrate is a major area of research in optoelectronics.…”

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Capped Optical Polymeric Waveguide

Liu¹,

Martínek²,

Chang³

et al. 2007

Journal of Optical Communications

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We present here a new type of polymer waveguides (i.e., capped waveguide) fabricated using contact photolithography with considerable performance improvement over the conventional waveguides. We also show that by simultaneous patterning of the core and the top cladding in capped waveguides, we can considerably reduce the effect of fabrication defects and reduce the propagation loss by at least 20% compared to conventional waveguides.

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“…6 The process has a number of advantages over the standard reactive ion etching methods. For example, the ablation can take place in air, so no vacuum chambers are necessary.…”

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<title>Characterization of low-loss polymer modulators fabricated by laser ablation</title>

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Electro-optic (EO) channel waveguide polymer phase modulators made by laser ablation are described. The ablation technique is capable of forming low loss channel waveguides at rapid rates with endface quality suitable for fiber pigtailed devices. Loss measurements as well as SEM micrographs were taken to optimize this process. Optical losses of these channel waveguides (before poling) were measured to be 0.37 dB/cm (TM mode) and 0.33 dB/cm (TE mode) at 1.32 pm wavelength. The polymer used was poly(methyl methacrylate) with disperse Red 1 dye attached as a side chain at a concentration of 10 mole %. In the poled channel waveguide phase modulator, an EO coefficient (r33) of 10.5 pm/V was achieved with electrode poling and measured by a heterodyne detection system.

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Laser ablation of nonlinear-optical polymers to define low-loss optical channel waveguides

Cited by 7 publications

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Fabrication and characterization of periodically patterned silica fiber structures for enhanced second-order nonlinearity

Fabrication and characterization of periodically patterned silica fiber structures for enhanced second-order nonlinearity

Capped Optical Polymeric Waveguide

<title>Characterization of low-loss polymer modulators fabricated by laser ablation</title>

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