Mechanically tunable integrated beamsplitters on a flexible polymer platform

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We report the development of a monolithic, mechanically tunable waveguide platform based on the flexible polymer polydimethyl siloxane. Such devices preserve single mode guiding across a wide range of linear geometric distortions. This enables the realization of directional couplers with tunable splitting ratios via elastic deformation of the host chip. We fabricated several devices of this type and verified their operation over a range of wavelengths, with access to the full range of input/output ratios. The low cost and relative ease of fabrication of these devices via a modified imprint lithographic technique make them an attractive platform for investigation of large scale optical random walks and related optical phenomena.

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Grieve, J. A., Ng, K. F., Rodrigues, M. J. L. F., Viana-Gomes, J., & Ling, A. (2017). Mechanically tunable integrated beamsplitters on a flexible polymer platform. Applied Physics Letters, 111(21). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998299

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