Title :
Embedded laser ablated micro-mirrors for intra- and out-of-plane coupling in multilayer optical interconnects
Author :
Nina Hendrickx;Jurgen Van Erps;Hugo Thienpont;Peter Van Daele
Author_Institution :
Ghent University, Dept. Information Technology, Technologiepark 914A, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
We report on laser ablated micro-mirrors, embedded into PCB-integrated optical layers to provide intra- and out-of-plane coupling. The alignment tolerance between mirrors in a two layer optical structure is studied numerically and experimentally verified
Keywords :
"Optical coupling","Nonhomogeneous media","Optical interconnections","Mirrors","Optical films","Laser beams","Laser ablation","Integrated optics","Optical materials","Laser theory"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9556-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278789
