Title :
All optical pluggable board-backplane interconnection system based on an MPXTM-FlexTail connector solution
Author :
Bierhoff, Thomas ; Schrage, Jürgen ; Halter, Markus ; Betschon, Felix ; Duis, Jeroen ; Rietveld, Willy
Author_Institution :
Siemens AG SIS C-Lab., Paderborn, Germany
Abstract :
A pluggable connector for board-level optical polymer waveguides has been developed by adaptation of standard MPXTM-Technology to flexible polymer waveguides. Its capability has been demonstrated by realizing an all optical board-backplane-board interconnection system.
Keywords :
optical backplanes; optical polymers; optical waveguides; MPX-FlexTail connector solution; board-level optical polymer waveguides; optical board-backplane-board interconnection system; optical pluggable board-backplane interconnection system; pluggable connector; Backplanes; Bandwidth; Connectors; High speed optical techniques; Optical coupling; Optical interconnections; Optical planar waveguides; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Power system interconnection;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Majorca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5240-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5241-5
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421981
