Title :
Study of surface mounting of PLC on optical fibre circuit board
Author :
Abe, Y. ; Kobayashi, M. ; Asakawa, S. ; Sumida, S.
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., Ibaraki, Japan
fDate :
5/10/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The first surface mounting of a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) on an optical fibre circuit board is proposed and demonstrated. Both surface mounting and physical contact connection between a PLC type duplex 1×16 splitter and fibres were realised
Keywords :
integrated optoelectronics; microassembling; optical fibres; optical interconnections; surface mount technology; OEIC; optical fibre circuit board; physical contact connection; planar lightwave circuit; surface mounting;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010454
