Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Laminated Polymer Optical Waveguide

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Keishi Shimizu, Shigemi Ohtsu, Kazutoshi Yatsuda and Eiichi Akutsu, all from Ashigarakami-gun, Japan, have developed a laminated polymer optical waveguide and a process for producing the same.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "laminated polymer optical waveguide including two or more optical waveguide films each of which includes an optical waveguide core on a light-transmissive clad film, the two or more optical waveguide films being laminated on each other by using a clad-forming curable resin having a refractive index close to that of the light-transmissive clad film."

An abstract of the invention, released by the ...

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