Abstract
A technique for incorporating a groove into a substrate is described. Both V grooves for fiber alignment and vertical grooves for waveguide end-face formation can be fabricated with this technique. The proposed fabrication method is based on an excimer-laser ablation and a high-speed rotation saw cut for . The former process provides a variety of cross-sectional groove shapes by changing the ablation mask shape of , and the latter provides an optical-quality cutting face. The proposed fabrication method is simple and provides low-cost optical platforms not only for but also for glasses, polymers, and semiconductors.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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