Low- and high-index sol-gel films for planar and channel-doped waveguides

Michael Canva; Frederic Chaput; Khalid Lahlil; Vincent Rachet; Helene Goudket; Jean-Pierre Boilot; Yves Levy

doi:10.1117/12.447630

6 November 2001 Low- and high-index sol-gel films for planar and channel-doped waveguides

Michael Canva, Frederic Chaput, Khalid Lahlil, Vincent Rachet, Helene Goudket, Jean-Pierre Boilot, Yves Levy

Proceedings Volume 4439, Design, Manufacturing, and Testing of Planar Optical Waveguide Devices; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447630
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In view of realizing integrated optic components based on effects such as electro-optic, chi(2):chi(2) cascading, stimulated emission,... one has to first synthesize materials with the proper functionality; this may be achieved by doping solid state matrices by the appropriate organic chromophores. Second, and as important, these materials have to be properly structured into the final optical guiding structures. We shall report on issues related to the realization of chromophore-doped planar waveguides as well as channel waveguides. These structures were realized by either photo-transformation such as photo- chromism and photo-bleaching or reactive ion etching technique, starting with chromophore doped sol-gel materials at high loading contents for which optical index may be controlled via the local dopant concentration. With these materials and techniques, waveguides and components characterized by propagation losses of the order of a cm^-1, measured off the edge of the absorption band of the doping species, were fabricated. In order to be also able to study and use waveguide functionalized with low concentration of chromophore species, we developed new sol-gel materials of high optical index, yet low temperature processed. These new films are under study to evaluate their potential as host for organic doped waveguides devices.

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Michael Canva, Frederic Chaput, Khalid Lahlil, Vincent Rachet, Helene Goudket, Jean-Pierre Boilot, and Yves Levy "Low- and high-index sol-gel films for planar and channel-doped waveguides", Proc. SPIE 4439, Design, Manufacturing, and Testing of Planar Optical Waveguide Devices, (6 November 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447630

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Waveguides

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