Polymer optical circuits for multimode optical fiber systems.
Polymer optical waveguides for multimode optical fiber systems have been formed by the selective photopolymerization method, and their waveguiding properties have been investigated. It is shown that the polymer optical waveguides match multimode optical fiber systems, with respect to guide dimensions and index differences, and have a transmission loss sufficiently low for circuit designs in the infrared region (0.19 dB/cm at 0.83 microm). In addition, effective applications of polymer optical circuits to compact optical dividers and lower loss couplers are demonstrated.
Kurokawa
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T
Takato
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N
Katayama
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Y