Board-to-board optical interconnection system using optical slots

Author

Cho, In-Kui ; Yoon, Keun Byoung ; Ahn, Seung Ho ; Jeong, Myung Yong ; Sung, Hee-Kyung ; Lee, Byung Ho ; Heo, Young Un ; Park, Hyo-Hoon

Author_Institution

Opt. Interconnection Team, Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

16

Issue

7

fYear

2004

fDate

7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1754

Lastpage

1756

Abstract

A practical optical backplane system was prepared with transmitter-receiver processing boards and an optical backplane made of polymeric-waveguide-embedded optical printed-circuit boards. As connection components between the transmitter-receiver processing boards and backplane board, optical slots were used to enable easy and repeatable insertion and extraction of the boards with micrometer precision. We report an 8-Gb/s data transmission between transmitter processing board and optical backplane.

Keywords

optical backplanes; optical fibre communication; optical interconnections; optical polymers; optical receivers; optical transmitters; optical waveguides; printed circuits; 8 Gbit/s; optical backplane system; optical interconnection system; optical slots; polymeric-waveguide; transmitter-receiver processing boards; waveguide-embedded printed-circuit board; Backplanes; Electromagnetic waveguides; High speed optical techniques; Integrated circuit interconnections; Optical interconnections; Optical polymers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Sprites (computer);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.828833

Filename

1308288