Abstract
We report studies on UV-photobleached optical channel waveguides in nonlinear optical polymer films. The nonlinear optical polymer used is poly(methyl methacrylate)/DR1 side-chain polymer. The effective indices of the channel waveguides are measured with the prism-coupling technique, along with the effective indices of bleached and unbleached polymer films. The effective-index method was used to predict the effective indices of the channel waveguides from measurements of the slab waveguides, without detailed knowledge of the index distributions in the polymer films. Some local stress-related effects on the boundaries of the channel waveguides caused by the UV-bleaching process are identified by comparison between direct channel measurement and prediction. It is found that the technique used in this study can be employed to predict the performance of channel waveguides processed such that they have no excessive internal stress distributions.
© 1995 Optical Society of America
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