Embossed Optical Waveguides
- 15 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 20 (6), 213-215
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1654115
Abstract
Dielectric optical waveguides have been made by embossing grooves in a thermoplastic substrate and filling them with a liquid which is then solidified. Grooves (7 μm wide and 3.5 μm deep) in poly(methyl methacrylate) (n=1.49) were filled with cyclohexyl methacrylate which was photopolymerized to produce a permanent guide (n=1.505). The attenuation was 2–4 dB/cm at λ=0.633 μm.Keywords
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