Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the continued support by Dipl.-Ing.
Rüdiger Kuckuk (Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften—ISAS) and Prof. Andreas
Neyer (TU Dortmund University). The fruitful cooperation with Wacker Chemie, Burghausen
(Germany), is also acknowledged.
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D. Cai and H. M. Heise
Rüdiger Kuckuk (Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften—ISAS) and Prof. Andreas
Neyer (TU Dortmund University). The fruitful cooperation with Wacker Chemie, Burghausen
(Germany), is also acknowledged.
References
1. Miller DAB (1997) Physical reasons for optical interconnections. Int J Optoelectronics
11:155–168
2. Groh W (1988) Overtone absorption in macromolecules for polymer optical fibers. Macromol
Chem 189:2861–2874
3. Tanio N, Koike Y (2000) What is the most transparent polymer? Polym J 32:43–50
4. Ballato J, Foulger S, Smith DW Optical properties of perfluorocyclobutyl polymers. J Opt Soc
Am B 20:1838–1843
5. Cai DK, Neyer A, Kuckuk R, Heise HM (2007) Estimation of absorption loss in
siloxane-based materials implemented as passive optical interconnects. In: Proceedings of
optical fiber communication and exposition (OFC) and national fiber optic engineers
conference (NFOEC), Anaheim, CA, paper JWA27
6. Flipsen T, Pennings AJ, Hadziioannou G (1998) Polymer optical fiber with high thermal
stability and low optical losses based on novel densely crosslinked polycarbosiloxanes. J Appl
Polym Sci 67:2223–2230
7. Yasuda N, Yamamoto H, Minami S, Nobutoki H, Wada Y, Yanagia S (2002) Novel silicone
polymeric material with high thermal stability for optical waveguides. Jpn J Appl Phys
41:624–630
8. Usui M, Hikita M, Amano TM, Sugawara S, Hayashida S, Imamura S (1996) Low-loss
passive polymer optical waveguides with high environmental stability. J Lightwave Technol
14:2338–2343
9. Su K, DeGroot JV Jr, Norris AW, Lo PY (2006) Siloxane materials for optical applications.
Proc SPIE 6029:318–325
10. Xia Y, Whitesides G (1998) Soft lithography. Angew Chem 37:550–575
11. Cai DK, Neyer A (2007) Realization of Electrical-circuit-board self-packaging. In:
Proceedings of IEEE conference on electronic components and technology conference,
pp 1368–1374
12. Ma H, Jen AK, Dalton LR (2002) Polymer-based optical waveguides: materials, processing,
and devices. Adv Mater 14:1339–1365
13. Poelman D, Smet PF (2003) Methods for the determination of the optical constants of thin
films from single transmission measurements: a critical review. J Phys D Appl Phys 36:1850–
1857
14. Voges E, Petermann K (2002) Optische Kommunikationstechnik. Springer, Heidelberg
Chapter 3
15. Smith AL (1960) Infrared spectra-structure correlations for organosilicon compounds.
Spectrochim Acta A 16:87–105
16. Bokobza L, Buffeteau T, Desbat B (2000) Mid-and near-infrared investigation of molecular
orientation in elastomeric networks. Appl Spectrosc 54:360–365
17. Cai DK (2008) Optical and mechanical aspects on polysiloxane based
electrical-optical-circuits-board. Ph.D. thesis, TU Dortmund University. http://dx.doi.org/10.
17877/DE290R-8242
18. Cai DK, Neyer A, Kuckuk R, Heise HM (2008) Optical absorption in transparent PDMS
materials applied for multimode waveguides fabrication. Opt Mater 30:1157–1161
424
D. Cai and H. M. Heise