[WE1] Optical Modules and Fiber Coupling

[WE1-6] Investigation of Roughness Induced Scattering Loss of Polymer Waveguides for Optical Printed Circuit Board Application

〇Ying Shi, Lin Ma, Xiao Xu, Shoulin Jiang, Zuyuan He (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China)

Keywords:Optical printed circuit board, Emerging materials and fabrication method for passive photonic platforms

We numerically and experimentally investigated the sidewall roughness induced scattering loss of polymer waveguides. The results show that the scattering loss largely increase when the core width of the waveguide is smaller than 10 μm.