Optical Polymer Waveguides Fabricated by Roll-to-Plate Nanoimprinting Technique

Prajzler, Vaclav; Chlupaty, Vaclav; Kulha, Pavel; Neruda, Milos; Kopp, Sonja; Mühlberger, Michael

doi:10.3390/nano11030724

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Optical Polymer Waveguides Fabricated by Roll-to-Plate Nanoimprinting Technique

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Vaclav Prajzler

^1,*

,

Vaclav Chlupaty

¹,

Pavel Kulha

^1,2,*

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Milos Neruda

¹,

Sonja Kopp

² and

Michael Mühlberger

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Department of Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 168 27 Prague, Czech Republic

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PROFACTOR GmbH, Im Stadtgut D1, A-4407 Steyr-Gleink, Austria

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Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 724; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030724

Submission received: 24 February 2021 / Revised: 8 March 2021 / Accepted: 8 March 2021 / Published: 13 March 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanoimprint Lithography Technology and Applications)

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The paper reports on the properties of UV-curable inorganic-organic hybrid polymer multimode optical channel waveguides fabricated by roll-to-plate (R2P) nanoimprinting. We measured transmission spectra, refractive indices of the applied polymer materials, and optimized the R2P fabrication process. Optical losses of the waveguides were measured by the cut-back method at wavelengths of 532, 650, 850, 1310, and 1550 nm. The lowest optical losses were measured at 850 nm and the lowest average value was 0.19 dB/cm, and optical losses at 1310 nm were 0.42 dB/cm and 0.25 dB/cm at 650 nm respectively. The study has demonstrated that nanoimprinting has great potential for the implementation of optical polymer waveguides not only for optical interconnection applications.

Keywords: optical planar waveguides; roll-to-plate R2P nanoimprinting; UV-curable polymers; inorganic-organic hybrid polymer; optical losses

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Prajzler, V.; Chlupaty, V.; Kulha, P.; Neruda, M.; Kopp, S.; Mühlberger, M. Optical Polymer Waveguides Fabricated by Roll-to-Plate Nanoimprinting Technique. Nanomaterials 2021, 11, 724. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030724

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Prajzler V, Chlupaty V, Kulha P, Neruda M, Kopp S, Mühlberger M. Optical Polymer Waveguides Fabricated by Roll-to-Plate Nanoimprinting Technique. Nanomaterials. 2021; 11(3):724. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030724

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Prajzler, Vaclav, Vaclav Chlupaty, Pavel Kulha, Milos Neruda, Sonja Kopp, and Michael Mühlberger. 2021. "Optical Polymer Waveguides Fabricated by Roll-to-Plate Nanoimprinting Technique" Nanomaterials 11, no. 3: 724. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030724

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Prajzler, V., Chlupaty, V., Kulha, P., Neruda, M., Kopp, S., & Mühlberger, M. (2021). Optical Polymer Waveguides Fabricated by Roll-to-Plate Nanoimprinting Technique. Nanomaterials, 11(3), 724. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030724

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