Jensen, Thomas Glasdam

Kutter, Jörg Peter

Zhuang, Guisheng

In this paper, a thiol-ene based polymer waveguide, defined by UV-assisted soft lithography, is designed, fabricated andcharacterized. Waveguides are formed by filling microfluidic channels with a high refractive index liquid mixture of ‘thiol’and ‘ene’ monomers (e.g., trimethylolpropane tris(3-mercaptopropionate) = ‘thiol’, and1,3,5-triallyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione = ‘ene’), which can be cured by UV exposure into a solid polymer. Thewaveguides demonstrated good confinement of light, and a propagation loss of 0.5 dB/cm was obtained. To our bestknowledge, this is the first report to employ thiol-ene based polymers as waveguide core materials for potential optofluidicapplications

Thiol-Ene Based Polymer Waveguides Fabricated By Uv-Assisted Soft Lithography For Optofluidic Applications

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