Recent Progress of Imprinted Polymer Photonic Waveguide Devices and Applications

Polymers are promising materials for fabricating photonic integrated waveguide devices. Versatile functional devices can be manufactured using a simple process, with low cost and potential mass-manufacturing. This paper reviews the recent progress of polymer photonic integrated devices fabricated using the UV imprinting technique. The passive polymer waveguide devices for wavelength filtering, power splitting, and light collecting, and the active polymer waveguide devices based on the thermal-optic tuning effect, are introduced. Then, the electro-optic (EO) modulators, by virtue of the high EO coefficient of polymers, are described. Finally, the photonic biosensors, which are based on low-cost and biocompatible polymer platforms, are presented.

聚合物是制造光子集成波导器件的有前景的材料。通过简单的工艺可以制造出多功能的器件，成本低且具有潜在的大规模制造能力。本文综述了利用紫外压印技术制造的聚合物光子集成器件的最新进展。介绍了用于波长滤波、功率分配和光收集的无源聚合物波导器件，以及基于热光调谐效应的有源聚合物波导器件。然后，描述了利用聚合物高电光系数的电光调制器。最后，介绍了基于低成本且生物相容的聚合物平台的光子生物传感器。