Details
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Optifab 2023 |
| Editors | Jessica DeGroote Nelson, Blair Unger |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9781510668058 |
| Publication status | Published - 29 Nov 2023 |
| Event | Optifab 2023 - Rochester, United States Duration: 16 Oct 2023 → 19 Oct 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
|---|---|
| Volume | 12778 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0277-786X |
| ISSN (electronic) | 1996-756X |
Abstract
Rotative printing technologies are an approach to manufacturing polymer optical waveguides with high throughput for applications such as electro-optical circuit boards (EOCB) or smart packaging. Processes presumably originating in graphical applications apply defined amounts of polymer onto a polymer substrate. Unlike graphical printing, the use of these processes to manufacture functional waveguides underlies different requirements regarding material transfer, structure of the printed polymer, and multi-layer stacking of functional layers. This work applies the manufacturing processes gravure printing and flexographic printing to realize waveguide cores onto PMMA substrates. Therefore, a modular printing machine with high positional accuracy between multiple printed layers is used. The waveguides are further cladded with another PMMA substrate using thermal lamination. The processes are evaluated according to waveguide geometry and optical parameters. Material transfer per layer, resulting geometrical quality, and aspect ratio of the waveguides are compared regarding their manufacturing process. Functional tests are conducted as optical attenuation measurements to evaluate the waveguide's macro range performance. Using these results, the potentials of each process for an upcoming production of fully-printed cladded waveguides are determined and showcased.
Keywords
- Planar Polymer Waveguides, Printed optics, Rotative Printing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Science Applications
- Mathematics(all)
- Applied Mathematics
- Engineering(all)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Optifab 2023. ed. / Jessica DeGroote Nelson; Blair Unger. SPIE, 2023. 1277805 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12778).
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AU - Evertz, A.
AU - Fütterer, L.
AU - Fritze, A. L.
AU - Reitz, B.
AU - Overmeyer, L.
N1 - Funding Information: This study was conducted within the OptiK-Net (Project ID 13N15045) project. This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) under the project sponsor VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH. Further the work was supported and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (EXC 2122, Project ID 390833453). The authors would like to thank the sponsors for the attentive support and extensive possibilities during our research.
PY - 2023/11/29
Y1 - 2023/11/29
N2 - Rotative printing technologies are an approach to manufacturing polymer optical waveguides with high throughput for applications such as electro-optical circuit boards (EOCB) or smart packaging. Processes presumably originating in graphical applications apply defined amounts of polymer onto a polymer substrate. Unlike graphical printing, the use of these processes to manufacture functional waveguides underlies different requirements regarding material transfer, structure of the printed polymer, and multi-layer stacking of functional layers. This work applies the manufacturing processes gravure printing and flexographic printing to realize waveguide cores onto PMMA substrates. Therefore, a modular printing machine with high positional accuracy between multiple printed layers is used. The waveguides are further cladded with another PMMA substrate using thermal lamination. The processes are evaluated according to waveguide geometry and optical parameters. Material transfer per layer, resulting geometrical quality, and aspect ratio of the waveguides are compared regarding their manufacturing process. Functional tests are conducted as optical attenuation measurements to evaluate the waveguide's macro range performance. Using these results, the potentials of each process for an upcoming production of fully-printed cladded waveguides are determined and showcased.
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KW - Planar Polymer Waveguides
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