Bendable and Splitter-Integrated Optical Subassembly Based on a Flexible Optical Board

Author

Hwang, Sung Hwan ; Lim, JungWoon ; Lee, Woo-Jin ; Kim, GyeWon ; Cho, Che Hyun ; An, Jong Bea ; Jung, Ki Young ; Cha, Kyung Soon ; Rho, Byung Sup

Author_Institution

Integrated Opt. Module Lab., Korea Photonics Technol. Inst., Gwangju, South Korea

Volume

22

Issue

3

fYear

2010

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

169

Abstract

A bendable and splitter-integrated optical subassembly (OSA) is suggested as a short-distance board-to-board optical interconnection. This OSA was fabricated by simply packaging a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser on a flexible optical board having an embedded 1 Ã— 8 optical splitter waveguide. Finally, we measured various optical characteristics of the OSA, including insertion, twist, and bending losses.

Keywords

assembling; flexible electronics; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; laser cavity resonators; optical beam splitters; optical fabrication; optical interconnections; optical losses; optical waveguides; packaging; printed circuits; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; bendable optical subassembly; bending loss; embedded 1 Ã\x97 8 optical splitter waveguide; flexible optical board; insertion loss; packaging; short-distance board-to-board optical interconnection; splitter-integrated optical subassembly; twist loss; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; Loss measurement; Optical interconnections; Optical losses; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Packaging; Surface emitting lasers; Surface waves; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Waveguide lasers; 1 $times$ 8 optical splitter; Flexible optical board; optical interconnect; optical subassembly (OSA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2009.2037243

Filename

5379199