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Capped Optical Polymeric Waveguide

We present here a new type of polymer waveguides (i.e., capped waveguide) fabricated using contact photolithography with considerable performance improvement over the conventional waveguides. We also show that by simultaneous patterning of the core and the top cladding in capped waveguides, we can considerably reduce the effect of fabrication defects and reduce the propagation loss by at least 20% compared to conventional waveguides.