High-speed optical interconnect coupler based on soft lithography ribbons

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1956-1963

  Flores, Angel ^a   Song, Sangyup ^b   Yang, Jame J ^b   Liu, Zhinqiang ^a   Wang, Michael R ^a  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^b New Span Opto Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing system; Evanescent coupling; Optical interconnection; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SEPARATION; SPEED; WAVEGUIDES;

10 GB/ S; AUTO-ALIGNMENT; BACK PLANES; CARD-TO-BACKPLANE; COMPUTING SYSTEM; COUPLING EFFICIENCIES; DATA TRANSMISSIONS; EVANESCENT COUPLING; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; HIGH SPEEDS; INTERACTION LENGTH; INTERCONNECT APPLICATIONS; INTERCONNECT PERFORMANCE; LIGHT COUPLINGS; LOWER COST; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; OPTICAL DATA; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION; OPTICAL-; PROTOTYPING; SOFT-LITHOGRAPHY; WAVEGUIDE;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 52149122974     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.922287     Document Type: Article

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