Laser-induced-forward-transfer: a rapid prototyping tool for fabrication of photonic devices
- Sones, C.L.
- Kaur, K.S.
- Ganguly, P.
- Banks, D.P.
- Ying, Y.J.
- Eason, R.W.
- Mailis, S.
Publication date
January 2010
DOI Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC ISSN
0947-8396 Citation count (estimate)
15Abstract
We propose a rapid prototyping method for the fabrication of optical waveguides based on the direct laser-printing method of ultrafast Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) followed by further processing. The method was implemented for the fabrication of titanium in-diffused lithium niobate channel waveguides and X-couplers by LIFT-depositing titanium metal followed by diffusion. Propagation loss as low as 0.8 dB/cm was measured in preliminary experiments
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