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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Waveguide Fluorine-Containing Material
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 16, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 16 -- Takayuki Araki, Yoshito Tanaka and Mihoko Ohashi, all from Settsu, Japan, have developed an optical waveguide that comprises a core portion and a clad portion.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "There is provided a material which can give a high elasticity and heat resistance to an optical waveguide member by photo-curing while maintaining transparency in a near infrared region and further makes it possible to use a film forming process by a spin coating method and a process for producing a waveguide by photolithograph, to obtain a waveguide having a large area and to produce an optical waveguide having ...