Photolithographically manufactured acrylate multimode optical waveguide translation and rotation misalignment tolerances

Author

Baghsiahi, Hadi ; Selviah, David R. ; Yu, Guoyu ; Wang, Kai ; Yau, Michael ; Fernandez, F.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron.&Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. Lond, London

fYear

2008

fDate

1-4 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

617

Lastpage

622

Abstract

This paper reports numerous experimental measurements and modelling result of the loss caused by various amounts of translation and rotation misalignment in the optical backplane system. Combinations of VCSEL as the light source and waveguides of various widths have been input in the system. The source has been moved away from the centre of a channel waveguide in the horizontal and vertical direction gradually to find out the translation and rotation tolerance. Offsets between VCSEL-waveguide and waveguide-receiver have been studied to find the translation and rotation tolerance.

Keywords

optical fabrication; optical waveguides; photolithography; polymers; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL-waveguide; acrylate multimode optical waveguide translation; channel waveguide; light source; optical backplane system; photolithographically; rotation misalignment tolerances; waveguide-receiver; Backplanes; Connectors; Electromagnetic waveguides; Equations; Manufacturing; Optical polymers; Optical receivers; Optical waveguides; Plugs; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics System-Integration Technology Conference, 2008. ESTC 2008. 2nd

Conference_Location

Greenwich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2813-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2814-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESTC.2008.4684422

Filename

4684422