Integrated Optics and Micro-Optics with Polymers

Prof. Wolfgang Ehrfeld ist Leiter des Instituts für Mikrotechnik in Mainz, das führend in der Entwicklung und Herstellung von mikrotechnischen Baustein n für die Industrie ist.

Materials for Micro-Optics and Nonlinear Optics.- Inorganic-organic Polymers for Micro-Optic Applications.- Bistable Nematics - A Novel Approach towards Optical Information Processing.- Nonlinear Optics with Inhomogeneously Poled Polymers.- Esterification of Polymers with Acid Chloride Groups - A New Route to Polymethacrylates with Nonlinear Optically Active Side Groups.- Polymer Filled Porous Glass Plates - A Composite Material for Nonlinear Optics.- Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: A New Class of Materials for Photonic Devices.- Characterization and Modelling.- Optical Characterization of Ultrathin Polymer Films by Evanescent Light.- Optimization of Polymer Inverted-Rib-Waveguides by the Finite Element Method.- ?(3) - Effects in Polymer Waveguides.- Absorption Studies of Optically Nonlinear Side-Chain Polymer and Polymer-Dye Films oriented by Corona Poling.- Electrooptical Measurement of ?(3) in Polymers with Conjugated ?-Electron Systems.- Fabrication Techniques and Applications.- Deep Proton Irradiation of PMMA for a 3D Integration of Micro-Optical Components.- Fabrication of Micro-Optic Elements by UV-initiated Polymerization.- Micropatterning of Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites for Micro-Optical Applications.- Replication of Microrelief Structures for Diffractive and Integrated Optics.- Fabrication of Monomode Polymer Waveguides by Replication Technique.- Examples and Potential Applications of LIGA Components in Micro-Optics.- Photonic Microsystems from LIGA Technology.- Force Transducers on the Basis of Piezoelectric Copolymers.- Applications of Integrated Optics in the Field of Measuring Technology and Sensorics.- Realization of 10-Polymer-Components and Present State in Polymer Technology at HHI Berlin.- Applications of Integrated Optical PolymerComponents on Coherent OFDM-Systems.- Theory.- Linear Mode Beating and Nonlinear Mode Coupling in Resonant Optical Waveguides.- Evolution of Guided Wave Fields in Rib ARROW-Structures.