Tolerance analysis for multilayer optical interconnections integrated on a printed circuit board

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2395-2401

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alignment tolerance; Coupling structures; Laser ablation; Micromirrors; Nonsequential ray tracing; Optical interconnections

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LASER ABLATION; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; RAY TRACING;

NUMERICAL TOLERANCE; POLYMER MULTILAYER OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS; TWO-LAYER MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 34548607830     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.901377     Document Type: Article

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