Plastic microoptical interconnection modules for parallel free-space inter- and intra-MCM data communication

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 769-778

  Thienpont, Hugo ^a   Member, Ieee ^b   Debaes, Christof ^b   Member, Student ^b   Ieee, Valérie Baukens ^b   Ottevaere, Heidi ^b   Ieee, Pedro Vynck ^b   Ieee, Patrik Tuteleers ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Microoptics; Optical interconnects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001252324     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.867691     Document Type: Article

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37. Hugo Thieiipont (Member, IEEE) was bom in Belgium in 1961. He graduated from the Vrije Universiteil Brussels (VLB) in 1984 as an electrical engineer w ifh majors in applied physics and applied optics. In 1994. he became a Professor in the Faculty of Applied Sciences with teaching responsibilities in six compulsory pholonics courses. Today, he is Director of Research of the Laboratory for Photonics and is a promoter of different photonics-related research and industrial projects. His research activities comprise materials, modeling, components and devices, packaging, and demonstrators for photonic interconnects in computing. He is an Associate Editor of Optical Engineering and was Guest Editor of the special issues on "Optics in Computing" for the Journal of the EOS in 1998, for Applied Optics in 2000, and for the International Journal of Optoelectronics on "Tutorials on Optics in Computer." He serves on technical program committees of several EOS, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE topical and annual meetings and was Technical Program Chair of the ICOEOS topical meeting "Optics in Computing "98." Prof. Thienpont received the ICO International Prize 1999 for his contributions in the field of optical and photonic information processing. Chrïstof Debaes (Student Member, IEEE) was born in Geraardsbergen, Belgium, in 1975. He graduated as an electrotechnical engineer from the Vrije Universitcit Brüssel (VLB) in 1998. Currently, he is with ihe Applied Physics Department of the VL B and the Ginzton Lab of Stanford University directed by D, A. B. Miller with a fellowship of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research. His Ph.D. studies are concerned with short-distance optical interconnects. Valérie Baukens was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1973. She graduated from Ihc Free University Brussels (VLB) in i996 as an electrical engineer with majors in photonics, fiber-optics, optoelectronics, and laser physics.. She then joined the Applied Physics Department as a Researcher and Assistant Professor, where she is responsible for the practical courses on optical design with ray-tracing software. She currently is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the domain of free-space optical interconnects for data communication.