Polymers are promising materials for fabricating photonic integrated waveguide devices.
Versatile functional devices can be manufactured using a simple process, with low cost and …

An evanescent field sensor utilizing layered polymeric-inorganic composite waveguide
configuration was developed in this work. The composite waveguide structure consists of a …

In this work we demonstrate the use of a dielectric barrier discharge plasma for the treatment
of SU-8. The resulting hydrophilic surface displays a 5° contact angle and (0.40±0.012) nm …

The refractive index sensitivity of a polymer slot waveguide coated with a bilayer of
Al_2O_3/TiO_2 was investigated theoretically and optimized for biosensor applications. The …

Low-loss polymeric optical waveguides were fabricated by UV-nanoimprinting. With this
technique the waveguides are directly patterned by imprinting of the UV-curable optical …

Polymers are important materials in fabrication of photonics devices due to their good optical
properties, such as, high transmittivity, versatile processability also at low temperatures …

Characteristic equations for eigenmodes in a planar waveguide which utilizes negative
refractive index (NRI) material as a guiding layer and positive refractive index (PRI) …

Polymers are applicable materials for photonic device fabrication due to their good optical
properties and versatile processability at low temperatures, and therefore, provide possibility …

In this work, we investigate the usability of layered polymer-inorganic composite waveguides
for label-free sensing of surface bound bioreactions in an aqueous environment. The …

Mainly because of the sensing and biosensing applications, polymer waveguides are, since
a few years, a topic with raising interest in integrated optics. Transparent in a broad …