Ultra-Wide-Band Low Loss and High Reliability Polymer Optical Waveguide

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
TAKENOBU, Shotaro; KUWANA, Yasuhiro; TAKAYAMA, Kousuke; MORIZAWA, Yoshitomi (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd, 1150 Hazawa-cho, Yokohama 221-8755, JAPAN)

Abstract:
We demonstrated polymer optical waveguide with propagation loss comparable to silica, and with high reliability.Propagation loss was 0.022dB/cm at 1550nm. Damp heat and high power tests gave very good results.