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| Title: | Polymer-based hybrid integrated optical photochromic switch |
| Authors: | Gutiérrez, M
Rodríguez-Cobos, A
Balderas-Navarro, R E
Bello-Jiménez, M
Alvarez, J A
Ramírez-Flores, G
Guel, S
Elizalde, L E
Ledezma, R |
| Keywords: | Hybrid device
Integrated optics devices
Ionic exchange technique
Optical control
Optical properties
Photochromism
Polymers
Thin films |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2012 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | This study presents development and characterization of
an optical photochromic switch, in which guided signal is controlled by
reversible photochromic properties of a polymeric film. The device is a hybrid
structure composed of a waveguide fabricated by means of an ionic exchange
technique, using (Na+/K+) on a glass substrate and a polymeric thin film
deposited on the same glass substrate surface. Polymeric film belongs to
spiropirans family, which when radiated by a wavelength within its absorption
band displays reversible changes in its optical properties. Two kinds of
optical pumping and different pumping wavelengths were studied to operate this
device. |
| Page(s): | 539-543 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1084 (Online); 0022-4456 (Print) |
| Source: | JSIR Vol.71(08) [August 2012]
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