Flexible all-polymer waveguide for low threshold amplified spontaneous emission

The fabrication of all polymer optical waveguides, based on a highly fluorescent conjugated polymer (CP) poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT) and a mechanically flexible and biodegradable polymer, cellulose acetate (CA), is reported. The replication by hot embossing of patterned sur...

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Autores principales: Smirnov, José R. Castro, Zhang, Qi, Wannemacher, Reinhold, Wu, Longfei, Casado, Santiago, Xia, Ruidong, Rodriguez, Isabel, Cabanillas-González, Juan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5043348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27686745
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34565
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author Smirnov, José R. Castro
Zhang, Qi
Wannemacher, Reinhold
Wu, Longfei
Casado, Santiago
Xia, Ruidong
Rodriguez, Isabel
Cabanillas-González, Juan
author_facet Smirnov, José R. Castro
Zhang, Qi
Wannemacher, Reinhold
Wu, Longfei
Casado, Santiago
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description The fabrication of all polymer optical waveguides, based on a highly fluorescent conjugated polymer (CP) poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT) and a mechanically flexible and biodegradable polymer, cellulose acetate (CA), is reported. The replication by hot embossing of patterned surfaces in CA substrates, onto which high quality F8BT films can be easily processed by spin coating, is exploited to produce an entirely plastic device that exhibits low optical loss and low threshold for amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). As a result, highly transparent and flexible waveguides are obtained, with excellent optical properties that remain unaltered after bending, allowing them to be adapted in various flexible photonic devices.
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spelling pubmed-50433482016-10-05 Flexible all-polymer waveguide for low threshold amplified spontaneous emission Smirnov, José R. Castro Zhang, Qi Wannemacher, Reinhold Wu, Longfei Casado, Santiago Xia, Ruidong Rodriguez, Isabel Cabanillas-González, Juan Sci Rep Article The fabrication of all polymer optical waveguides, based on a highly fluorescent conjugated polymer (CP) poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT) and a mechanically flexible and biodegradable polymer, cellulose acetate (CA), is reported. The replication by hot embossing of patterned surfaces in CA substrates, onto which high quality F8BT films can be easily processed by spin coating, is exploited to produce an entirely plastic device that exhibits low optical loss and low threshold for amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). As a result, highly transparent and flexible waveguides are obtained, with excellent optical properties that remain unaltered after bending, allowing them to be adapted in various flexible photonic devices. Nature Publishing Group 2016-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5043348/ /pubmed/27686745 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34565 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34565
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