Optical backplanes with integrated polymer waveguides

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 673-679

  Moisel, Jörg ^a   Guttmann, Joachim ^a,b,c,d   Huber, Hans Peter ^a,d   Krumpholz, Oskar ^a,d   Rode, Manfred ^a,d   Bogenberger, Richard ^a   Kuhn, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^b Tech College for Glass Manufacture   (Germany)

^c SCHOTT AG   (Germany)

^d AEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

MICROMIRRORS; OPTICAL BACKPLANE; OPTICAL BUS; POLYMER WAVEGUIDE; RING NETWORK; STAR COUPLER; STAR NETWORK;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0033751870     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602413     Document Type: Article

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