Optical waveguide with a substantially planar substrate and process for its production

US5480687A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Schott Glaswerke · DE
• Hoffmann-La Roche, A.G. · CH

Inventors

• Martin Heming · Saulheim, DE
• Roland Hochhaus · Mainz, DE
• Ralf Kersten · Niedernhausen, DE
• Dieter Krause · Mainz, DE
• Jurgen Otto · Hattingen, DE
• Volker Paquet · Mainz, DE
• Johannes Segner · Stromberg, DE
• Christof Fattinger · Blauen, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 7, 1995
• Grant date: Jan 2, 1996
• Expiry date: Apr 7, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/124
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An optical waveguide is disclosed with a substantially planar substrate and a waveguide layer applied to the substrate. The invention resides in that the substrate consists of a synthetic resin or of a material having a high organic proportion. This has the advantage that the high index of refraction of the inorganic waveguide layer is combined with the material properties of the synthetic resin substrate, such as, for example, breaking resistance, plastic and thermoplastic moldability, photochemical structuring ability, and others.