TY - GEN
T1 - Investigation of fabrication conditions for Y-branched polymer optical waveguides using the Mosquito method
AU - Sekitani, Kentaro
AU - Hatai, Ryosuke
AU - Ishigure, Takaaki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this paper, the conditions for fabricating Y-branched optical waveguides using the Mosquito method are discussed, focusing on the viscosity of the monomer and the branch angle. With increasing the viscosity of core monomer, the Y-branching structures tend to be distorted particularly when the branching angle is larger than 0.5 degree. After finding out the appropriate fabrication conditions, Y-branched optical waveguides in which two-port cores are vertically stacked are fabricated, taking the advantage of the Mosquito method: the ability to form three-dimensional core wiring patterns. Single-mode and multimode cores are successfully formed in which we could confirm the light propagation.
AB - In this paper, the conditions for fabricating Y-branched optical waveguides using the Mosquito method are discussed, focusing on the viscosity of the monomer and the branch angle. With increasing the viscosity of core monomer, the Y-branching structures tend to be distorted particularly when the branching angle is larger than 0.5 degree. After finding out the appropriate fabrication conditions, Y-branched optical waveguides in which two-port cores are vertically stacked are fabricated, taking the advantage of the Mosquito method: the ability to form three-dimensional core wiring patterns. Single-mode and multimode cores are successfully formed in which we could confirm the light propagation.
KW - mode division multiplexing
KW - multiplexer
KW - the Mosquito method
KW - Y-branched polymer optical waveguide
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSJ55786.2022.10034729
DO - 10.1109/ICSJ55786.2022.10034729
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85148688271
T3 - 2022 IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2022
SP - 100
EP - 101
BT - 2022 IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2022
Y2 - 9 November 2022 through 11 November 2022
ER -