Laser ablation of parallel optical interconnect waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1106-1108

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Laser ablation; Optical interconnect; Polymer; Printed circuit board (PCB); Waveguide

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES; BOARD-LEVEL; CROSS SECTION; LOW LOSS; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; PROPAGATION LOSS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SIDEWALL ROUGHNESS; SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT; YELLOWING EFFECTS;

DEBRIS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; EXCIMER LASERS; GAS LASERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVEGUIDES;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 35348849365     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.873357     Document Type: Article

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