Integrated Optics and Micro-Optics with Polymers

The present book is the account of a workshop on Integrated Optics and Micro-Optics with Polymers held in spring 1992 at Mainz and organized by IMM Institute of Microtechnology GmbH, the Max Planck Institute of Poly­ mer Research, and the Institute of Applied Physics of Friedrich Schiller University at Jena. The field of Integrated Optics and Micro-Optics with Polymers is receiving growing interest from multiple sides. Among the important reasons are the potential of tailoring materials for a specific application, the easy and cheap availability of those materials, and the possibilities of mass fabrica­ tion with plastiCS. Accordingly, materials researchers, microtechnologists, process engineers, and device builders are active in this field. Their interest is fed from prospective applications of integrated or micro-optical devices and systems in telecommunication, sensors, optical switching and routing, and, in a more distant future, optical processing. The workshop succeeded to bring together more than 130 experimenta­ lists and theorists, physicists and chemists, device developers and users, materials researchers and process engineers, as well as polymer scien­ tists and those dealing with anorganic materials, coming from industry, research institutes, and universities.

Materials for Micro-Optics and Nonlinear Optics.- Inorganic-organic Polymers for Micro-Optic Applications.- Bistable Nematics ¿ A Novel Approach towards Optical Information Processing.- Nonlinear Optics with Inhomogeneously Poled Polymers.- Esterification of Polymers with Acid Chloride Groups ¿ A New Route to Polymethacrylates with Nonlinear Optically Active Side Groups.- Polymer Filled Porous Glass Plates ¿ A Composite Material for Nonlinear Optics.- Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: A New Class of Materials for Photonic Devices.- Characterization and Modelling.- Optical Characterization of Ultrathin Polymer Films by Evanescent Light.- Optimization of Polymer Inverted-Rib-Waveguides by the Finite Element Method.- ?(3) ¿ Effects in Polymer Waveguides.- Absorption Studies of Optically Nonlinear Side-Chain Polymer and Polymer-Dye Films oriented by Corona Poling.- Electrooptical Measurement of ?(3) in Polymers with Conjugated ?-Electron Systems.- Fabrication Techniques and Applications.- Deep Proton Irradiation of PMMA for a 3D Integration of Micro-Optical Components.- Fabrication of Micro-Optic Elements by UV-initiated Polymerization.- Micropatterning of Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites for Micro-Optical Applications.- Replication of Microrelief Structures for Diffractive and Integrated Optics.- Fabrication of Monomode Polymer Waveguides by Replication Technique.- Examples and Potential Applications of LIGA Components in Micro-Optics.- Photonic Microsystems from LIGA Technology.- Force Transducers on the Basis of Piezoelectric Copolymers.- Applications of Integrated Optics in the Field of Measuring Technology and Sensorics.- Realization of 10-Polymer-Components and Present State in Polymer Technology at HHI Berlin.- Applications of Integrated Optical Polymer Components on Coherent OFDM-Systems.- Theory.- Linear Mode Beating and Nonlinear Mode Coupling in Resonant Optical Waveguides.- Evolution of Guided Wave Fields in Rib ARROW-Structures.