Cost-effective multimode polymer waveguides for high-speed on-board optical interconnects

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 415-424

  Bamiedakis, Nikolaos ^a   Beals IV, Joseph ^a   Penty, Richard V ^a   White, Ian H ^a   DeGroot Jr , Jon V ^b   Clapp, Terry V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DOW CORNING CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimode waveguides; Optical interconnections; Optical polymers; Waveguide components

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; LAUNCHING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL LINKS; POLYMERS; SPEED; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

10 GB/ S; ALIGNMENT TOLERANCES; BENDING LOSS; DATA RATES; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; EXCESS LOSS; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED LINKS; HIGH-SPEED OPERATIONS; LAUNCH CONDITIONS; LOW LOSS; MULTIMODE COUPLERS; MULTIMODE POLYMERS; MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS; OPTICAL POLYMERS; OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; POWER SPLITTING; S-SHAPED; TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES; VARIABLE SPLITTING; WAVEGUIDE CROSSINGS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 63649129554     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2013111     Document Type: Article

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