Recent Progress of Imprinted Polymer Photonic Waveguide Devices and Applications

作者：Xiuyou Han, Zhenlin Wu, Si-Cheng Yang, Fangfang Shen, Yuxin Liang, Linghua Wang, Jinyan Wang, Jun Ren, Lingyun Jia, Hua Zhang, Shuhui Bo, Geert Morthier, Mingshan Zhao · 发表于：Polymers · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.3390/polym10060603 · 被引用次数：43 · 研究领域：Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques、Photonic and Optical Devices、Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

Polymers are promising materials for fabricating photonic integrated waveguide devices. Versatile functional devices can be manufactured using a simple process, with low cost and potential mass-manufacturing. This paper reviews the recent progress of polymer photonic integrated devices fabricated using the UV imprinting technique. The passive polymer waveguide devices for wavelength filtering, power splitting, and light collecting, and the active polymer waveguide devices based on the thermal-optic tuning effect, are introduced. Then, the electro-optic (EO) modulators, by virtue of the high EO coefficient of polymers, are described. Finally, the photonic biosensors, which are based on low-cost and biocompatible polymer platforms, are presented.