Development of Alicyclic Polymers for Multimode Waveguide Array and its Characteristics for Use in Optical Interconnection

Author

Nakano, Kaichiro ; Kuribayashi, Ryosuke ; Maeda, Katsumi ; Noda, Arihide ; Sakai, Jun ; Takahashi, Hisaya ; Kouta, Hikaru

Author_Institution

NEC Corp., Sagamihara

fYear

2007

fDate

Jan. 16 2007-Yearly 18 2007

Firstpage

170

Lastpage

173

Abstract

We have carried out elemental research and development regarding optical transmission technology to establish the petaFLOPS - (10¹⁵ floating point number operations per second) class supercomputer. We describe our development of an alicyclic polymer, waveguide arrays formed with the polymer, and their characteristics for multimode optical data transmission. We have also developed high-density optoelectronic modules with a 4.5times4.5times0.5-mm low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate that transmits 12 signals, and demonstrated a 10-Gbps/ch error-free transmission with the polymeric-waveguide array. We also showed a 20-Gbps/ch optical eye as a transmitter with a 1.1-mum range InGaAs vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL).

Keywords

ceramics; mainframes; optical computing; optical interconnections; optical polymers; optical waveguides; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; alicyclic polymers; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; high-density optoelectronic modules; low-temperature co-fired ceramic substrate error-free transmission; multimode optical data transmission; multimode waveguide array; optical interconnection; petaFLOPS-class supercomputer; polymeric-waveguide array; size 0.5 mm; size 4.5 mm; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; Ceramics; Data communication; Optical arrays; Optical interconnections; Optical polymers; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Research and development; Supercomputers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; alicyclic polymer; lactone; multimode; optical interconnection; polymeric waveguide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Polymers and Adhesives in Microelectronics and Photonics, 2007. Polytronic 2007. 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Odaiba, Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1186-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1186-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/POLYTR.2007.4339161

Filename

4339161