@article{9c18046de2e2430c9a7ee8299a8d9921,
title = "Multi-Channel Single-Mode Polymer Waveguide Fabricated Using the Mosquito Method",
abstract = "We experimentally demonstrate that the Mosquito method is capable of fabricating polymer optical waveguides with single-mode cores. The Mosquito method we developed is a technique to form planar polymer waveguides using a commercially available microdispenser. In this article, the flow of the core monomer dispensed from the tip of the needle is simulated using fluid analysis software. The results show that the shape of the needle periphery significantly affects the fabrication of perfectly circular cross-sectional cores. In addition, we demonstrate that the Mosquito method is capable of reducing the MFD variation to 0.4 μm. We find such a small MFD fluctuation is comparable to that of typical single-mode optical fibers.",
keywords = "3-D fluid analysis, Mosquito method, polymer optical waveguide, single-mode waveguide",
author = "Sho Yakabe and Hitomi Matsui and Yui Kobayashi and Yuki Saito and Ken Manabe and Takaaki Ishigure",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received May 26, 2020; revised September 7, 2020 and September 30, 2020; accepted October 1, 2020. Date of publication October 7, 2020; date of current version January 15, 2021. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI under Grant JP18H05238. (Corresponding author: Sho Yakabe.) Sho Yakabe is with the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan, and also with the Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., Yokohama 244-8588, Japan (e-mail: yakabe-syou@sei.co.jp). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1983-2012 IEEE.",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1109/JLT.2020.3029395",
language = "English",
volume = "39",
pages = "547--556",
journal = "Journal of Lightwave Technology",
issn = "0733-8724",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "2",
}