Flexible optical waveguide film fabrications and optoelectronic devices integration for fully embedded board-level optical interconnects

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2168-2176

  Choi, Chulchae ^a   Lin, Lei ^a   Liu, Yujie ^a   Choi, Jinho ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Haas, David ^b   Magera, Jerry ^b   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SANMINA SCI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILMS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LASERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODIODES; PHOTORESISTS; PLASTICS MOLDING; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SUBSTRATES;

EMBEDDED OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; MICROMIRROR COUPLER; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; SOFT MOLDING; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; WAVEGUIDE FILM;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 4644278451     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.833815     Document Type: Article

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