• DocumentCode
    3488565
  • Title

    Design and implementation of an optical interconnect demonstrator with board-integrated waveguides and microlens coupling

  • Author

    Berger, Christoph ; Bapst, Urs ; Bona, Gian-Luca ; Dangel, Roger ; Dellmann, Laurent ; Dill, Peter ; Kossel, Marcel A. ; Morf, Thomas ; Offrein, Bert ; Schmatz, Martin L.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Zurich Res. Lab., Switzerland
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    28-30 June 2004
  • Firstpage
    19
  • Lastpage
    20
  • Abstract
    We discuss some of the trade-offs that we are facing when choosing design parameters for future optical backplane interconnects. We present some of our current choices, along with experimental module- and system-level results.
  • Keywords
    microlenses; optical backplanes; optical couplers; optical interconnections; optical waveguides; board-integrated waveguides; microlens coupling; optical backplane interconnect; optical interconnect demonstrator; optical interconnect design parameters; Backplanes; Laboratories; Lenses; Microoptics; Optical attenuators; Optical coupling; Optical design; Optical interconnections; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings
  • ISSN
    1099-4742
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8306-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338684
  • Filename
    1338684