Title :
Pluggable Optical Board Interconnection System With Flexible Polymeric Waveguides
Author :
Ahn, Seung-Ho ; Cho, In-Kui ; Rhee, Byoung-Ho ; Lee, Man-Seop
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon
fDate :
4/15/2008 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Pluggable optical board interconnection system using flexible optical waveguide for direct-coupling to reduce the transmission loss is proposed and demonstrated. For the direct coupling between waveguides of boards, we use optical plug and adaptor with flexible polymeric waveguide and guide pins. Flexible polymeric optical waveguide is fabricated using hot embossing technique. Eye pattern and jitter characteristics of the backplane system is presented at 10 Gb/s.
Keywords :
jitter; optical waveguides; power system interconnection; adaptor; backplane system; direct coupling; eye pattern; flexible polymeric waveguides; guide pins; hot embossing; jitter; pluggable optical board interconnection system; Embossing; Jitter; Optical coupling; Optical interconnections; Optical losses; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Pins; Plugs; Propagation losses; Optical interconnect; polymeric waveguide; printed circuit board;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2008.918876
