Compression-molded three-dimensional tapered optical polymeric waveguides for optoelectronic packaging

Suning Tang; Linghui Wu; Feiming Li; Ting Li; Ray T. Chen

doi:10.1117/12.271088

4 April 1997 Compression-molded three-dimensional tapered optical polymeric waveguides for optoelectronic packaging

Suning Tang, Linghui Wu, Feiming Li, Ting Li, Ray T. Chen

Proceedings Volume 3005, Optoelectronic Interconnects and Packaging IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271088
Event: Photonics West '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

It is one of the major bottlenecks to bridge various optoelectronic devices, such as laser diodes, optical waveguides and photodetectors in ultra low-loss optoelectronic interconnects, which are often fabricated using different technologies with different optical apertures. To solve this problem, 3D tapered optical polymeric waveguides are presented to provide the mode- matching among these optoelectronic components. Compression- molded polymeric waveguides presented herein is probably the only solution to bridge huge dynamic range of different optoelectronic device-depths varying from few microns to few hundreds microns. Both the design rule and fabrication technique are presented together with some experimental results. It is shown that such a 3D tapered waveguide can provide an effective optical coupling at a relaxed alignment tolerance.

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Suning Tang, Linghui Wu, Feiming Li, Ting Li, and Ray T. Chen "Compression-molded three-dimensional tapered optical polymeric waveguides for optoelectronic packaging", Proc. SPIE 3005, Optoelectronic Interconnects and Packaging IV, (4 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271088

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