Title :
Design and implementation of an optical interconnect demonstrator with board-integrated waveguides and microlens coupling
Author :
Berger, Christoph ; Bapst, Urs ; Bona, Gian-Luca ; Dangel, Roger ; Dellmann, Laurent ; Dill, Peter ; Kossel, Marcel A. ; Morf, Thomas ; Offrein, Bert ; Schmatz, Martin L.
Author_Institution :
IBM Zurich Res. Lab., Switzerland
Abstract :
We discuss some of the trade-offs that we are facing when choosing design parameters for future optical backplane interconnects. We present some of our current choices, along with experimental module- and system-level results.
Keywords :
microlenses; optical backplanes; optical couplers; optical interconnections; optical waveguides; board-integrated waveguides; microlens coupling; optical backplane interconnect; optical interconnect demonstrator; optical interconnect design parameters; Backplanes; Laboratories; Lenses; Microoptics; Optical attenuators; Optical coupling; Optical design; Optical interconnections; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8306-0
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338684
