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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 037103 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Mar 2016 |
Abstract
We demonstrate the manufacturing of embedded multimode optical waveguides through linking of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) foils and cyclic olefin polymer (COP) filaments based on a lamination process. Since the two polymeric materials cannot be fused together through interdiffusion of polymer chains, we utilize a reactive lamination agent based on PMMA copolymers containing photoreactive 2-acryloyloxyanthraquinone units, which allows the creation of monolithic PMMA-COP substrates through C-H insertion reactions across the interface between the two materials. We elucidate the lamination process and evaluate the chemical link between filament and foils by carrying out extraction tests with a custom-built tensile testing machine. We also show attenuation measurements of the manufactured waveguides for different manufacturing parameters. The lamination process is in particular suited for large-scale and low-cost fabrication of board-level devices with optical waveguides or other micro-optical structures, e.g., optofluidic devices.
Keywords
- optical sensing, optical waveguides, photonic technologies, reactive lamination
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Engineering(all)
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In: Optical Engineering, Vol. 55, No. 3, 037103, 08.03.2016.
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T1 - Manufacturing of embedded multimode waveguides by reactive lamination of cyclic olefin polymer and polymethylmethacrylate
AU - Kelb, Christian
AU - Rother, Raimund
AU - Schuler, Anne Katrin
AU - Hinkelmann, Moritz
AU - Rahlves, Maik
AU - Prucker, Oswald
AU - Müller, Claas
AU - Rühe, Jürgen
AU - Reithmeier, Eduard
AU - Roth, Bernhard
PY - 2016/3/8
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