PHOTONIC DEVICES COMPRISING THERMO-OPTIC POLYMER

摘要

Hybrid integrated planar photonics provides silica waveguides (502) for transport and polymer or hybrid silica/polymer waveguides (505) for refracti ve- based active functions within a single integrated photonic circuit. Function s include modulation, attenuation, switching, filtering, and exceptionally low - loss transport. When the active and passive optical elements are integrated onto the same substrates (500), the resulting composite devices can exhibit strong functional response with little total optical loss as compared to kno wn methods.