In recent years, the interest in making waveguides and other integrated optic devices in polymer materials has grown rapidly. The driving force behind this development is cost reduction. Semiconductor materials and dielectric materials such as lithium niobate are relatively expensive and the processes used to fabricate devices in those materials are very complex. As the size and complexity of fiber optic telecom and datacom systems has grown, leading to fiber connections to the office and home, the demand for large quantities of inexpensive integrated optic devices has increased. As a result, research has been directed toward producing in polymers many of the devices that formerly were made only in III–V semiconductors or in lithium niobate. It also has been demonstrated that some integrated optic devices can be made from glass or plastic optical fiber waveguides as well as polymers. An example of this latter type of device is the array waveguide (AWG), which performs a spatial dispersion of different wavelengths similar to that produced by a prism [1].
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Hunsperger, R.G. (2009). Polymer and Fiber Integrated Optics. In: Integrated Optics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b98730_5
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