We propose a rapid prototyping method for the fabrication of optical waveguides based on the direct laser-printing method of ultrafast Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) followed by further processing. The method was implemented for the fabrication of titanium in-diffused lithium niobate channel waveguides and X-couplers by LIFT-depositing titanium metal followed by diffusion. Propagation loss as low as 0.8 dB/cm was measured in preliminary experiments. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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Sones, C. L., Kaur, K. S., Ganguly, P., Banks, D. P., Ying, Y. J., Eason, R. W., & Mailis, S. (2010). Laser-induced-forward-transfer: A rapid prototyping tool for fabrication of photonic devices. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, 101(2), 333–338. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-010-5827-5
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