Advances in waveguide Bragg grating structures, platforms, and applications: an up-to-date appraisal

MA Butt, NL Kazanskiy, SN Khonina - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
A Bragg grating (BG) is a one-dimensional optical device that may reflect a specific
wavelength of light while transmitting all others. It is created by the periodic fluctuation of the …

Thermo-optic coefficients of polymers for optical waveguide applications

Z Zhang, P Zhao, P Lin, F Sun - polymer, 2006 - Elsevier
Polymers with diverse chemical structure were evaluated to establish an empirical
relationship between their thermo-optic coefficients (dn/dT) and coefficients of thermal …

Integrated photonic devices incorporating low-loss fluorinated polymer materials

MC Oh, KJ Kim, WS Chu, JW Kim, JK Seo, YO Noh… - Polymers, 2011 - mdpi.com
Low-loss polymer materials incorporating fluorinated compounds have been utilized for the
investigation of various functional optical devices useful for optical communication and …

Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits

SM Kim, ES Lee, KW Chun, J Jin, MC Oh - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Optical phased array (OPA) devices are being actively investigated to develop compact solid-
state beam scanners, which are essential in fields such as LiDAR, free-space optical links …

Graphene-based transparent flexible heat conductor for thermally tuning nanophotonic integrated devices

L Yu, D Dai, S He - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Graphene, a well-known two-dimensional sheet, has attracted strong interest for both
fundamental studies and applications. Due to its high intrinsic thermal conductivity …

Thermo-optic devices on polymer platform

Z Zhang, N Keil - Optics Communications, 2016 - Elsevier
Optical polymers possess in general relatively high thermo-optic coefficients and at the
same time low thermal conductivity, both of which make them attractive material candidates …

Polymeric optical waveguide devices exploiting special properties of polymer materials

MC Oh, WS Chu, JS Shin, JW Kim, KJ Kim, JK Seo… - Optics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Optical polymer materials have many unique features that are unavailable in other inorganic
optical materials. These include large thermo-optic effect with low thermal conductivity, index …

High-performance optical phased array for LiDARs demonstrated by monolithic integration of polymer and SiN waveguides

ES Lee, J Jin, KW Chun, SS Lee, MC Oh - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical phased array (OPA) beam scanners for light detection and ranging (LiDAR) are
proposed by integrating polymer waveguides with superior thermo-optic effect and silicon …

Continuously tunable compact lasers based on thermo-optic polymer waveguides with Bragg gratings

YO Noh, HJ Lee, JJ Ju, M Kim, SH Oh, MC Oh - Optics Express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
Based on the thermo-optic tuning of a polymer waveguide Bragg reflector, we demonstrated
a cost-effective tunable wavelength laser for WDM optical communications. The excellent …

Transmission characteristics of femtosecond laser pulses in a polymer waveguide

C Wang, J Liu, Z Zhang - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond lasers have been widely employed in scientific and industrial applications,
including the study of material properties, fabrication of structures on the sub-micrometer …