FABRICATING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES

摘要

Methods and devices are provided for fabricating waveguides. Some such methods involve forming at least a portion of the waveguide using an embossing process for shaping a substrate and/or other components. Some implementations provide processes for making waveguide features by omitting what may previously have been regarded as essential steps in forming waveguides via a semiconductor fabrication process. Some implementations provide processes of forming waveguide features by deliberately causing what would heretofore have been regarded as defects in a semiconductor fabrication process. Some such methods and devices can produce waveguides at a substantially lower cost than was heretofore possible.