Low-cost integrated-optic fiber couplers

Sang K. Sheem; Feng Zhang; Jong-Ho Choi; Yong-Woo Lee; Sarah Low; Shih-Yau Lu

doi:10.1117/12.271098

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4 April 1997 Low-cost integrated-optic fiber couplers

Sang K. Sheem, Feng Zhang, Jong-Ho Choi, Yong-Woo Lee, Sarah Low, Shih-Yau Lu

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Proceedings Volume 3005, Optoelectronic Interconnects and Packaging IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271098
Event: Photonics West '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In an effort to lower the cost of fiber optic couplers, integrated optic channel waveguide circuits are made of a UV-curable polymer using a molding technique, and then a novel fiber-to-channel connecting approach is employed in which UV light radiating from an optical fiber core cures the polymer in the channel, thus accomplishing a 'touchdown' of the core-extension waveguide onto the walls of the channel waveguide.

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Sang K. Sheem, Feng Zhang, Jong-Ho Choi, Yong-Woo Lee, Sarah Low, and Shih-Yau Lu "Low-cost integrated-optic fiber couplers", Proc. SPIE 3005, Optoelectronic Interconnects and Packaging IV, (4 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271098

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