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Advanced Polymer Integrated Optics
(APIO)DLC's
Advanced Polymer Integrated Optics is a platform technology
for the design & fabrication of polymer optical chips & hybrid
optical chips containing polymer.
It is the combination
of a reliable and scalable chip fabrication process with a
large toolbox of optical designs. It has the ability to
integrate a range of optical functionality, with a flexible
layout and a small footprint. It can deliver high volume
manufacturing, with standard semiconductor fabrication
equipment, at high yields and low cost.
Products
Passive PLC chips
Splitters
Mux/demux (1550nm / 1310nm)
Custom Device Design
Innovative and professional design
services
Low cost, small footprint, high performance planar
solutions
Customised layout and footprint
Foundry
Services
Mask design and layout
Fabrication
Dicing
Fibre attachment
Full chip characterisation
Wafer
characterisation
Advantages
Small footprints
possible due to high index contrasts
Small bend radius
Low device losses
Suitable platform for complex
functionality (better than Silica on Silicon)
Dynamic
attenuation using thermo-optic coefficient
Modulation by
incorporation of electro-optic chromophores
Scaleable
to Volume Manufacture
Few steps
High yields
Direct UV
Patterning (resist free process with no ion etching)
Low
capex cost
Small facility requirements
Low labour cost
Wafer size independent
Solvent free processing
High
quality films
Environmentally safe
Low cost shipping and
handling
Nominal Specifications
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Fully Tuneable Refractive Index Range (25°C) |
Cured Film, 1550 nm: 1.474 - 1.528
Cured Film, 633 nm:
1.491 - 1.543
IPG™ Resin, 633 nm: 1.485 - 1.535 |
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Thermo-optic coefficient (dn/dT) |
~ -3 x 10-4 /°C (over whole index range) |
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Birefringence |
~ 1 x 10-4 |
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Resin Absorption Loss |
1550 nm: ~ 0.5 dB/cm
1310 nm: ~ 0.25 dB/cm
850 nm: <
0.1 dB/cm
633 nm: < 0.1 dB/cm |
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Resin viscosity |
1,000 - 10,000 cP (controllable) |
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Film thickness |
0.5 - 50 um (single spun layer) |
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Thermal stability |
>300 °C |
Patterning of Waveguides
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1x16 MMI splitter output |
Waveguide core (proximity exposure) |
Insertion Loss
Fabrication
Process
If you need any special
spec, we can customize
If you don't find what you're looking for,
Contact Us.
We may have a suitable product that's not listed, or we may be
able to develop a material to fit your specific needs.
Tel : (02)2217-3442 / Fax : (02)2704-4070
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