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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/KJOP.2005.16.4.384

Polymer Optical Microring Resonator Using Nanoimprint Technique  

Kim, Do-Hwan (Department of Electrnic Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Im, Jung-Gyu (Department of Electrnic Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Lee, Sang-Shin (Department of Electrnic Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Ahn, Seh-Won (Devices and Materials Lab., LG Electronics Institute)
Lee, Ki-Dong (Devices and Materials Lab., LG Electronics Institute)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.16, no.4, 2005 , pp. 384-391 More about this Journal
Abstract
A polymer optical microring resonator, which is laterally coupled to a straight bus waveguide, has been proposed and demonstrated using a nanoimprint technique. The propagation loss of the ring waveguide and the optical power coupling between the ring and bus waveguides was calculated by using a beam propagation method, then the dependence of the device performance on them was investigated using a transfer matrix method. We have especially introduced an imprint stamp incorporating a smoothing buffer layer made of a silicon nitride thin film. This layer played an efficient role in improving the sidewall roughness of the waveguide pattern engraved on the stamp and thus reducing the scattering loss. As a result the overall Q factor of the resonator was greatly increased. Also it reduced the gap between the ring and bus waveguides effectively to enhance the coupling between them, without relying on the direct writing method based on an e-beam writer. As for the achieved device performance at the wavelength of 1550 nm, the quality factor, the extinction ratio, and the free spectral range were ~103800, ~11 dB, and 1.16 m, respectively.
Keywords
Ring, Resonator; Nanoimprint; Polymer; Optical;
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