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| Originalsprache | Englisch |
|---|---|
| Titel des Sammelwerks | Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XVIII |
| Herausgeber/-innen | El-Hang Lee, Louay A. Eldada, Sailing He |
| Herausgeber (Verlag) | SPIE |
| Seitenumfang | 6 |
| ISBN (elektronisch) | 9781628419863 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 3 März 2016 |
| Veranstaltung | Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XVIII - San Francisco, USA / Vereinigte Staaten Dauer: 16 Feb. 2016 → 18 Feb. 2016 |
Publikationsreihe
| Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
|---|---|
| Band | 9751 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0277-786X |
| ISSN (elektronisch) | 1996-756X |
Abstract
Micro-optical sensors based on optical waveguides are widely used to measure temperature, force and strain but also to detect biological and chemical substances such as explosives or toxins. While optical micro-sensors based on silicon technology require complex and expensive process technologies, a new generation of sensors based completely on polymers offer advantages especially in terms of low-cost and fast production techniques. We have developed a process to integrate micro-optical components such as embedded waveguides and optical interconnects into polymer foils with a thickness well below one millimeter. To enable high throughput production, we employ hot embossing technology, which is capable of reel-to-reel fabrication with a surface roughness in the optical range. For the waveguide fabrication, we used the thermoplastic polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) as cladding and several optical adhesives as core materials. The waveguides are characterized with respect to refractive indices and propagation losses. We achieved propagation losses are as low as 0.3 dB/cm. Furthermore, we demonstrate coupling structures and their fabrication especially suited to integrate various light sources such as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED) into thin polymer foils. Also, we present a concept of an all-polymer and waveguide based deformation sensor based on intensity modulation, which can be fabricated by utilizing our process. For future application, we aim at a low-cost and high-throughput reel-to-reel production process enabling the fabrication of large sensor arrays or disposable single-use sensing structures, which will open optical sensing to a large variety of application fields ranging from medical diagnosis to automotive sensing.
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- Werkstoffwissenschaften (insg.)
- Elektronische, optische und magnetische Materialien
- Physik und Astronomie (insg.)
- Physik der kondensierten Materie
- Informatik (insg.)
- Angewandte Informatik
- Mathematik (insg.)
- Angewandte Mathematik
- Ingenieurwesen (insg.)
- Elektrotechnik und Elektronik
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Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XVIII. Hrsg. / El-Hang Lee; Louay A. Eldada; Sailing He. SPIE, 2016. 975112 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Band 9751).
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T1 - Low-cost fabrication of optical waveguides, interconnects and sensing structures on all-polymer-based thin foils
AU - Rezem, Maher
AU - Kelb, Christian
AU - Günther, Axel
AU - Rahlves, Maik
AU - Reithmeier, Eduard
AU - Roth, Bernhard
PY - 2016/3/3
Y1 - 2016/3/3
N2 - Micro-optical sensors based on optical waveguides are widely used to measure temperature, force and strain but also to detect biological and chemical substances such as explosives or toxins. While optical micro-sensors based on silicon technology require complex and expensive process technologies, a new generation of sensors based completely on polymers offer advantages especially in terms of low-cost and fast production techniques. We have developed a process to integrate micro-optical components such as embedded waveguides and optical interconnects into polymer foils with a thickness well below one millimeter. To enable high throughput production, we employ hot embossing technology, which is capable of reel-to-reel fabrication with a surface roughness in the optical range. For the waveguide fabrication, we used the thermoplastic polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) as cladding and several optical adhesives as core materials. The waveguides are characterized with respect to refractive indices and propagation losses. We achieved propagation losses are as low as 0.3 dB/cm. Furthermore, we demonstrate coupling structures and their fabrication especially suited to integrate various light sources such as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED) into thin polymer foils. Also, we present a concept of an all-polymer and waveguide based deformation sensor based on intensity modulation, which can be fabricated by utilizing our process. For future application, we aim at a low-cost and high-throughput reel-to-reel production process enabling the fabrication of large sensor arrays or disposable single-use sensing structures, which will open optical sensing to a large variety of application fields ranging from medical diagnosis to automotive sensing.
AB - Micro-optical sensors based on optical waveguides are widely used to measure temperature, force and strain but also to detect biological and chemical substances such as explosives or toxins. While optical micro-sensors based on silicon technology require complex and expensive process technologies, a new generation of sensors based completely on polymers offer advantages especially in terms of low-cost and fast production techniques. We have developed a process to integrate micro-optical components such as embedded waveguides and optical interconnects into polymer foils with a thickness well below one millimeter. To enable high throughput production, we employ hot embossing technology, which is capable of reel-to-reel fabrication with a surface roughness in the optical range. For the waveguide fabrication, we used the thermoplastic polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) as cladding and several optical adhesives as core materials. The waveguides are characterized with respect to refractive indices and propagation losses. We achieved propagation losses are as low as 0.3 dB/cm. Furthermore, we demonstrate coupling structures and their fabrication especially suited to integrate various light sources such as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED) into thin polymer foils. Also, we present a concept of an all-polymer and waveguide based deformation sensor based on intensity modulation, which can be fabricated by utilizing our process. For future application, we aim at a low-cost and high-throughput reel-to-reel production process enabling the fabrication of large sensor arrays or disposable single-use sensing structures, which will open optical sensing to a large variety of application fields ranging from medical diagnosis to automotive sensing.
KW - Hot embossing
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