Optical design of active interposer for high-speed chip level optical interconnects

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 927-933

  Hiramatsu, Seiki ^a,b   Mikawa, Takashi ^b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

45 mirror; Active interposer; Contour plot; Coupling tolerance; Optical waveguide film; Photodiode (PD); Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE INTERPOSERS; CONTOUR PLOT; COUPLING TOLERANCE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FILMS;

MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODIODES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 33749822026     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.861941     Document Type: Article

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