Development of a fabrication technology for integrating low cost optical interconnects on a printed circuit board

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6126, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Steenberge, Geert ^a   Hendrickx, Nina ^a   Geerinck, Peter ^a   Bosman, Erwin ^a   Van Put, Steven ^a   Van Erps, Jürgen ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^b   Van Daele, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

45 mirror; Laser ablation; Optical interconnect; Polymer waveguide; Printed circuit board (PCB)

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; MIRRORS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING LOSS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; POLYMER WAVEGUIDE; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCB;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 33646744911     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.644508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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