Photobleaching Fabrication of Microring Resonator in a Chromophore-Containing Polymer

Jun Zhou, Anan Pyayt, Larry R. Dalton, Jingdong Luo, Alex K. Y. Jen, Antao Chen*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Photobleaching is demonstrated to be a viable method for the fabrication of polymer waveguide microring resonators for the first time. Resonators made with this simple, one-step fabrication technique have shown extinction ratio and insertion loss better than 15 and 9 dB, respectively. This method does not involve solvents or chemicals and can be used to make microring resonators in polymer thin films that are not compatible with other fabrication techniques, and therefore, can be a useful complement to traditional fabrication methods.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2221-2223
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume18
Issue number21
Online published23 Oct 2006
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2006
Externally publishedYes

Research Keywords

  • Integrated optics
  • Microresonators
  • Optical polymers
  • Photobleaching

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