Integrated Photonic Devices Incorporating Low-Loss Fluorinated Polymer Materials

Polymers

Min-Cheol Oh²  Kyung-Jo Kim²  Woo-Sung Chu²  Jun-Whee Kim²  Jun-Kyu Seo¹  Young-Ouk Noh¹ 

[1] ChemOptics Inc., 836 Tamnip-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-510, Korea;E-Mails:;School of Electrical Engineering, and Graduate School of Cogno-Mechatronics Engineering, Pusan National University, 30 Jangjeon-dong, Geumjeong-gu, Pusan (Busan) 609-735, Korea;E-Mails:

关键词: photonic integrated circuits;    polymer waveguide devices;    optical polymers;   

DOI  :  10.3390/polym3030975

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Low-loss polymer materials incorporating fluorinated compounds have been utilized for the investigation of various functional optical devices useful for optical communication and optical sensor systems. Since reliability issues concerning the polymer device have been resolved, polymeric waveguide devices have been gradually adopted for commercial application systems. The two most successfully commercialized polymeric integrated optic devices, variable optical attenuators and digital optical switches, are reviewed in this paper. Utilizing unique properties of optical polymers which are not available in other optical materials, novel polymeric optical devices are proposed including widely tunable external cavity lasers and integrated optical current sensors.

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