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Journal of Surface Engineered Materials and Advanced Technology, 2011, 1, 56-61 doi:10.4236/jsemat .2011.12009 Published Online July 20 11 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jsemat ) Development of the Biopolymeric Optical Planar Waveguide with Nanopattern 1 1 1 2 2 3 Seung H. Yoon , Won T. Jeong , Kyung C. Kim , Kyung J. Kim , Min C. Oh , Sang M. Lee 1Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea; 2Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan, Ko- rea; 3Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea. Email: smlee@ Received May 18th, 2011; revised June 15th, 2011; accepted June 25th, 20 11. ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates for fabricating the biopolymric optical planar waveguide. Gelatin and chitosan were mixed with ratio of 9 to 1 and stirred at 70 ˚Cwith 1300 rpm. The blended biopolymer was spincoated on silicon substrate with 500 rpm and then dried in the oven at 50 ˚C. The refractive indices of the prepared biopolymer clad and core lay ers of the waveguide were measured by the ellipsometry. The measured refractive indices of the two layers were obtained to be 1.516 and 1.52, respectively. The nanograting was successfully imprinted on surface of the biopolymeric waveguide. Keywords : Biopolymeric Optical Waveguide, Nanograting 1. Introduction r e s p e c - This work aims to develop highly sensitive all-biopoly- meric planar Bragg grating biosensor. Biopolymer [1-4] is biocompatible material which is developed by blend- ing the chitosan and gelatin [5]. The optical planar wa- veguide is composed of a clad and core layers. The re- fractive index of the core layer is slightly higher than that of the clad layer so that light can be guid