Projects
All-polymer optical sensor platform

Project description
This project aims to develop new concepts for realizing polymer/semiconductor hybrid systems, combining the This project aims to develop new concepts for realizing integrated polymer-based optical platforms, combining the reusability of high cost coupling structures, such as polymer diffractive gratings, with the renewability of printable optical sensor circuits, such as asymmetric Mach–Zehnder interferometers.
Through extensive numerical simulation of coupling structures combined with prototype development and assembly, we aim to demonstrate an integrated platform with sufficiency coupling efficiency from external light source to optical sensor circuits based on single-mode planar waveguides.
Start/End of project
01.01.2017 until 30.06.2018
Project manager
Prof. Dr. Hans Zappe
Contact person
Dr. Pei Li
Partners
Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung
Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation
Keywords
Polymer optics, integrated optics, hybrid integration