Electro-optical circuit boards using thin-glass sheets with integrated optical waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6899, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Beier, Axel ^a   Schröder, Henning ^b   Arndt Staufenbiel, Norbert ^b   Ebling, Frank ^c   Franke, Martin ^a   Griese, Elmar ^d   Intemann, Steffan ^e   Kostelnik, Jan ^c   Kühler, Thomas ^d   Mödinger, Roland ^f   Roda, Ingo ^d   Schlosser, Ingolf ^g  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IZM   (Germany)

^c Wurth Elektronik GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^e PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^f Erni Elektroapparate GmbH   (Germany)

^g AEMtec GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electro optical PCB; Ion exchange; Optical coupling; Pluggable modules; Two layers; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

GLASS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; ION EXCHANGE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SUBSTRATES; TRANSMITTERS;

OPTICAL COUPLING; PLUGGABLE MODULES; TWO LAYERS;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 43649096814     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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