Integrated polymer waveguides incorporating nonlinear chromophores for all-optical signal processing

Enguerran Delcourt (1) , Loïc Bodiou (1) , Joël Charrier (1) , Sylvain Achelle (2) , Jonathan Lemaitre (1) , Nathalie Lorrain (1) , Dominique Bosc (1)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

In order to obtain non-linear waveguides for all-optical signal processing, new nonlinear polymer waveguides incorporating chromophores have been designed and processed using standard photolithographic steps. Polymer refractive index changes with chromophore concentration are presented. Waveguides exhibiting single mode propagation and high optical field confinement are demonstrated and optical propagation losses of 4.1 dB/cm at 1550 nm are measured.

Keywords: organic waveguides; integrated optics; Chromophores

Domains: Physics [physics]; Condensed Matter [cond-mat]; Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Optics / Photonic; Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Enguerran Delcourt, Loïc Bodiou, Joël Charrier, Sylvain Achelle, Jonathan Lemaitre, et al.. Integrated polymer waveguides incorporating nonlinear chromophores for all-optical signal processing. 17th European Conference on Integrated Optics & 19th MicroOptics Conference (ECIO-MOC 2014), Jun 2014, Nice, France. , ecio-conference.org, pp.P007, 2014, 2014 Proceedings. ⟨hal-01146713⟩