Planar optical interconnections for 100 Gb/s packet address detection

Author

Song, Seok Ho ; Lee, El-Hang

Author_Institution

Res. Dept., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea

fYear

1995

fDate

23-24 Oct 1995

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

270

Abstract

We propose a novel planar optical interconnection scheme for 100 Gb/s optical packet address detection, which consists of waveguide grating couplers and a diffractive microlens integrated on a glass substrate 3-dimensionally. Length and duty cycle of the grating couplers have been determined on the bases of the ray-optic propagation-mode analysis in a slab waveguide and of the rigorous coupled-wave diffraction analysis for out-coupled radiation-modes. The 3-dimensionally integrated planar optics makes it possible to connect each address bit-signals of TE0-waveguide mode to the detector with a power uniformity of 6.4% and a total coupling efficiency of 72.3%

Keywords

integrated optics; light diffraction; optical couplers; optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; optical waveguide theory; packet switching; 100 Gbit/s; 3D integrated planar optics; 72.3 percent; TE0-waveguide mode; address bit-signals; coupled-wave diffraction analysi; coupling efficiency; detector; diffractive microlens; duty cycle; glass substrate; optical packet switching networks; out-coupled radiation-modes; packet address detection; planar optical interconnections; power uniformity; ray-optic propagation-mode analysis; slab waveguide; waveguide grating couplers; Couplers; Diffraction gratings; Integrated optics; Lenses; Optical detectors; Optical diffraction; Optical interconnections; Optical planar waveguides; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, 1995., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7101-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPPOI.1995.528653

Filename

528653