Novel ester-containing aryl trifluorovinyl ether monomers and the resulting perfluorocyclobutane aromatic ether polymers have been synthesized and characterized to exhibit desirable properties for low optical loss waveguide applications. The monomers were prepared via a very mild esterification between the intermediate 4- trifluorovinyloxybenzoic acid and diphenol/triphenol using N, N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide ...
