Pluggable Optical Board Interconnection System With Flexible Polymeric Waveguides

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. Fl...

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Published inIEEE photonics technology letters Vol. 20; no. 8; pp. 572 - 574
Main Authors Ahn, Seung-Ho, Cho, In-Kui, Rhee, Byoung-Ho, Lee, Man-Seop
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 15.04.2008
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Embossing
Interconnection
Jitter
Joining
Optical coupling
Optical interconnect
Optical interconnections
Optical losses
Optical polymers
Optical waveguides
Photonics
Pins
Plugs
polymeric waveguide
printed circuit board
Propagation losses
Transmission loss
Waveguides
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2008.918876