Fabrication of microgrooves with excimer laser ablation techniques for plastic optical fiber array alignment purposes

Kris Naessens; An Van Hove; Thierry Coosemans; Steven Verstuyft; Heidi Ottevaere; Luc Vanwassenhove; Peter Van Daele; Roel G. Baets

doi:10.1117/12.387568

7 June 2000 Fabrication of microgrooves with excimer laser ablation techniques for plastic optical fiber array alignment purposes

Kris Naessens, An Van Hove, Thierry Coosemans, Steven Verstuyft, Heidi Ottevaere, Luc Vanwassenhove, Peter Van Daele, Roel G. Baets

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Proceedings Volume 3933, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing V; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387568
Event: Symposium on High-Power Lasers and Applications, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Laser ablation is extremely well suited for rapid prototyping and proves to be a versatile technique delivering high accuracy dimensioning and repeatability of features in a wide diversity of materials. In this paper, we present laser ablation as a fabrication method for micro machining in of arrays consisting of precisely dimensioned U-grooves in dedicated polycarbonate and polymethylmetacrylate plates. The dependency of the performance on various parameters is discussed. The fabricated plates are used to hold optical fibers by means of a UV-curable adhesive. Stacking and gluing of the plates allows the assembly of a 2D connector of plastic optical fibers for short distance optical interconnects.

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Kris Naessens, An Van Hove, Thierry Coosemans, Steven Verstuyft, Heidi Ottevaere, Luc Vanwassenhove, Peter Van Daele, and Roel G. Baets "Fabrication of microgrooves with excimer laser ablation techniques for plastic optical fiber array alignment purposes", Proc. SPIE 3933, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing V, (7 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387568

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