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Electro-Optic Polymer Devices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Rick Lytel ,
Ferris Lipscomb  and
Tony Ticknor
Rick Lytel
Affiliation:
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
Ferris Lipscomb
Affiliation:
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
Tony Ticknor
Affiliation:
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
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Abstract

Electro-optic (EO)polymers, processed into thin multilayer films, exhibit large nonresonant EO coefficients and low dielectric constants from DC to multi-GHz frequencies. Orientation of the constituent nonlinear optical chromophores, usually accomplished by electricfield poling, provides an EO coefficient suitable for modulation of light beams propagating in the plane of the polymer film. Thus, EO polymers are ideally suited for applications in integrated optics.

The field EO polymer integrated optics has been developing rapidly during the past several years. Recent advances include the formulation of poled crosslinked epoxies and guest-host polyimides exhibiting thermal stability at temperatures significantly higher than those previously achieved with thermoplastic acrylate chemistry. These developments are an essential first step toward achieving practical materials exhibiting stability to manufacture, assembly, and end-use in modem electronic systems applications. This paper provides an introduction to EO polymer waveguide devices for applications to electronic packaging and interconnection.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 264: Symposium G – Electronic Packaging Materials Science VI , 1992 , 363
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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