Assembly of optical fibers for the connection of polymer-based waveguides

Yannick Ansel; Daniel Grau; Markus Holzki; Silvio Kraus; Frank Neumann; Carsten Reinhard; Felix Schmitz

doi:10.1117/12.468619

11 March 2003 Assembly of optical fibers for the connection of polymer-based waveguide

Yannick Ansel, Daniel Grau, Markus Holzki, Silvio Kraus, Frank Neumann, Carsten Reinhard, Felix Schmitz

Proceedings Volume 4947, Laser Diodes, Optoelectronic Devices, and Heterogenous Integration; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.468619
Event: Photonics Fabrication Europe, 2002, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

This paper describes the realization of polymer-based optical structures and the assembly and packaging strategy to connect optical fiber ribbons to the waveguides. For that a low cost fabrication process using the SU-8^TM thick photo-resist is presented. This process consists in the deposition of two photo-structurized resist layers filled up with epoxy glue realising the core waveguide. For the assembly, a new modular vacuum gripper was realised and installed on an automatic pick and place assembly robot to mount precisely and efficiently the optical fibers in the optical structures. First results have shown acceptable optical propagation loss for the complete test structure.

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Yannick Ansel, Daniel Grau, Markus Holzki, Silvio Kraus, Frank Neumann, Carsten Reinhard, and Felix Schmitz "Assembly of optical fibers for the connection of polymer-based waveguide", Proc. SPIE 4947, Laser Diodes, Optoelectronic Devices, and Heterogenous Integration, (11 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.468619

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