Fabrication of optical waveguide structures based on PDMS using photoresist fibers

Peter Gaso; Dusan Pudiš; Ivan Martincek; Daniel Jandura

doi:10.1117/12.2175903

5 December 2014 Fabrication of optical waveguide structures based on PDMS using photoresist fibers

Peter Gaso, Dusan Pudiš, Ivan Martincek, Daniel Jandura

Proceedings Volume 9441, 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 944118 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2175903
Event: XIX Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2014, Jelenia Gora, Poland

Abstract

We describe fabrication process of optical waveguide structures such as multi-mode optical splitter and optical waveguide with surface Bragg grating in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Technology based on drawing of thin photoresist fiber with diameter up to 100 μm was developed and optimized. In this way, fibers drawn from photoresist form cores of waveguides in PDMS slab. After removal of the photoresist, created air channels can be filled in with different liquids. We prepared multimode waveguide structures in PDMS composed of two PDMS materials with different refractive indices. Using this technology, also complicated waveguide structures were prepared as optical splitter and surface Bragg grating were prepared in PDMS material.

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Peter Gaso, Dusan Pudiš, Ivan Martincek, and Daniel Jandura "Fabrication of optical waveguide structures based on PDMS using photoresist fibers", Proc. SPIE 9441, 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 944118 (5 December 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2175903

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