Inexpensive local interconnect solutions using side-coupling polymer optical fibers

Author

Li, Yao ; Wang, Ting ; Fasanella, Kenneth

Author_Institution

NEC Res. Inst., Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

22-24 June 1997

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

51

Abstract

Potentially low-cost optical side-couplers embedded along a polymer optical fiber are demonstrated using etched micro-mirrors. Both serial and parallel mirror fabrication possibilities are discussed. Near uniform light distributions to as many as 256 such side-coupling ports along a single straight fiber were experimentally obtained. Various unidirectional and bi-directional all plastic array coupler concepts are presented. Some of them are experimentally demonstrated. Low-cost unidirectional and bidirectional optical data buses are proposed.

Keywords

multiprocessor interconnection networks; optical fibre couplers; optical interconnections; array coupler concepts; bidirectional; local interconnect; optical data buses; optical side-couplers; side-coupling polymer optical fibers; unidirectional; Bidirectional control; Data buses; Etching; Mirrors; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections; Optical polymers; Plastics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7975-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPPOI.1997.609089

Filename

609089