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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Flexible Optical Waveguide Production Process
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 12, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 12 -- Ryuusuke Naitou, Kazunori Mune and Amane Mochizuki, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed a process for producing a flexible optical waveguide which is extensively used in optical communication.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The present invention provides a process for producing a flexible optical waveguide which comprises the steps of: immersing a substrate having an optical waveguide formed thereon in water to thereby reduce adhesion between the optical waveguide and the substrate and then peeling the optical waveguide from the substrate; temporarily bonding the peeled optical waveguide to a surface of ...