Laser ablated micromirrors for printed circuit board integrated optical interconnections

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 822-824

  Hendrickx, Nina ^a   Van Erps, Jürgen ^a   Van Steenberge, Geert ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^b   Van Daele, Peter ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coupling structures; Laser ablation; Micromirrors; Optical interconnections

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; MIRRORS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COUPLING STRUCTURES; LONG-HAUL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; MICROMIRRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 34249069453     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.897295     Document Type: Article

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