Device for optical connections of one or more optical emitters with one or more optical detectors of one or more integrated circuits

• Main Authors: KARSTENSEN; HOLGER, KLEMENT; EKKEHARD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 03.10.1989
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TRANSMISSION

A device for optically connecting one or several optical emitters with one or several optical detectors of integrated circuits characterized by a substrate, a spacer disposed on the substrate providing recesses for each of the integrated circuits and components and a cover plate with either a light waveguide structure extending between the various emitters and detectors interposed either between the cover plate and spacer or on one of the cover plates and spacers or a distributing element positioned on a surface of the cover plate for distributing light emitted by the optical emitter in one recess to the detectors of the same recess or both. The waveguide system allows interconnecting an optical emitter of one unit or component with a detector of another unit component or components. The distributing element allows connecting the optical emitter to the optical detector of a single unit. Thus, selection of the two types of optical arrangements allows an external connection of one component to another component or internal connections of elements of a single component.