Integrated Optics and Micro-Optics with Polymers

Front Matter....Pages 1-8
Inorganic-organic Polymers for Micro-Optic Applications....Pages 9-17
Bistable Nematics — A Novel Approach towards Optical Information Processing....Pages 18-33
Nonlinear Optics with Inhomogeneously Poled Polymers....Pages 34-41
Esterification of Polymers with Acid Chloride Groups — A New Route to Polymethacrylates with Nonlinear Optically Active Side Groups....Pages 42-61
Polymer Filled Porous Glass Plates — A Composite Material for Nonlinear Optics....Pages 62-75
Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: A New Class of Materials for Photonic Devices....Pages 76-88
Optical Characterization of Ultrathin Polymer Films by Evanescent Light....Pages 89-112
Optimization of Polymer Inverted-Rib-Waveguides by the Finite Element Method....Pages 113-120
χ (3) — Effects in Polymer Waveguides....Pages 121-137
Absorption Studies of Optically Nonlinear Side-Chain Polymer and Polymer-Dye Films oriented by Corona Poling....Pages 138-147
Electrooptical Measurement of χ (3) in Polymers with Conjugated π-Electron Systems....Pages 148-158
Deep Proton Irradiation of PMMA for a 3D Integration of Micro-Optical Components....Pages 159-176
Fabrication of Micro-Optic Elements by UV-initiated Polymerization....Pages 177-191
Micropatterning of Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites for Micro-Optical Applications....Pages 192-201
Replication of Microrelief Structures for Diffractive and Integrated Optics....Pages 202-210
Fabrication of Monomode Polymer Waveguides by Replication Technique....Pages 211-218
Examples and Potential Applications of LIGA Components in Micro-Optics....Pages 219-247
Photonic Microsystems from LIGA Technology....Pages 248-263
Force Transducers on the Basis of Piezoelectric Copolymers....Pages 264-268
Applications of Integrated Optics in the Field of Measuring, Technology and Sensorics....Pages 269-272
Realization of IO-Polymer-Components and Present State in Polymer Technology at HHI Berlin....Pages 273-290
Applications of Integrated Optical Polymer Components on Coherent OFDM-Systems....Pages 291-300
Linear Mode Beating and Nonlinear Mode Coupling in Resonant Optical Waveguides....Pages 301-331
Evolution of Guided Wave Fields in Rib ARROW-Structures....Pages 332-344