A molding method to fabricate the waveguide multilayer card

Abstract

Waveguide multilayer optical card (WMOC) is a new kind of three-dimensional storage device. A method of fabricating the WMOC using the molding technique is introduced in this paper. The fabrication of WMOC mainly includes data writing with hot embossing method and multilayer bonding with PDMS material. The structure of the WMOC is consisted with Polycarbonate (PC) as the core layer material and Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as cladding layer. The experimental results demonstrate that the molding fabrication method is feasible and effective.

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