Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2006, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (3): 571.

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Synthesis and Charaterization of Crosslinkable Poly(MMA-co-GMA) and Its Application in Arrayed Waveguide Grating

FEI Xu1, FU Na1, WANG Yao1, HU Juan1, CUI Zhan-Chen1*, ZHANG Da-Ming2, MA Chun-Xiao2, LIU Shi-Yong2, YANG Bai1   

  1. 1. Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure & Materials of  Ministry of Education,
    College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China;
      2. State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
  • Received:2005-03-23 Online:2006-03-10 Published:2006-03-10

Abstract:

A novel crosslinkable poly(methyl methacrylate-co-glycidyl methacrylate)  synthesized and was determined by FTIR, 1H NMR, GPC,DSC and AFM. The polymers have an excellent film-forming capability and possess a high glass transition temperature after crosslinking.  The refractive index of the polymer can be adjusted between 1.483 and 1.588 at 1.55 μm by doping bisphenol A epoxy.  Because of three-dimensionally crosslinked structure, the birefringence of the polymers was very low. The arrayed waveguide grating, poly(MMA-co-GMA) acting as cladding and poly(MMA-co-GMA) doped bisphenol A epoxy acting as core layer, was fabricated by spin coating, using aluminum as mask and oxygen reactive ion etching.  And its optical properties were characterized.  The waveguide achived single-mode transmission and optical loss of the core layer was less than 3.0 dB/cm at 1.55 μm.

Key words: Methyl methacrylate; Glycidyl methacrylate; Arrayed waveguide grating; Refractive index

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