Waveguide Growth: The Integrated View

by Joe McEntee fibers.org News, 25 Jul 2005 A UK research company called Plasma Quest has come up with a new take on sputtering technology that allows the deposition of thick layers of dielectric material onto silicon wafers at ambient temperature. The resulting structures exhibit excellent optical waveguiding properties and are said to be suitable for applications such as optical-chip interconnects, fibre-laser and fibre-detector coupling, as well as subsequent processing into photonic crystals. Read more