120 Gb/s Optical Card-to-Card Interconnect Link Demonstrator with Embedded Waveguides

Author

Dellmann, L. ; Berger, C. ; Beyeler, R. ; Dangel, R. ; Gmur, M. ; Hamelin, R. ; Horst, F. ; Lamprecht, T. ; Meier, N. ; Morf, T. ; Oggioni, S. ; Spreafico, Mauro ; Stevens, R. ; Offrein, B.J.

Author_Institution

IBM Res. GmbH, Zurich

fYear

2007

fDate

May 29 2007-June 1 2007

Firstpage

1288

Lastpage

1293

Abstract

We report on a card-to-card optical interconnect demonstrator with passively aligned butt-coupled optoelectronic modules onto waveguides embedded into the printed circuit board (PCB). After describing selected building blocks, we will present experimental results obtained with the demonstrator hardware consisting of a parallel 12-channel at 10 Gb/s (120 Gb/s) optical card-to-card link.

Keywords

integrated optoelectronics; optical interconnections; optical waveguides; printed circuit design; PCB; bit rate 120 Gbit/s; butt-coupled optoelectronic modules; embedded waveguides; optical card-to-card interconnect link demonstrator; optical elements passive alignment; polyurethane-acrylate-based polymer waveguides; printed circuit board; Bandwidth; Integrated circuit interconnections; Integrated optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Propagation losses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 2007. ECTC '07. Proceedings. 57th

Conference_Location

Reno, NV

ISSN

0569-5503

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0985-3

Electronic_ISBN

0569-5503

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTC.2007.373961

Filename

4250047