Low-cost, precision, self-alignment technique for coupling laser and photodiode arrays to polymer waveguide arrays on multilayer PCBs

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 502-511

  Papakonstantinou, Ioannis ^a   Selviah, David R ^a   Pitwon, Richard C A ^b   Milward, Dave ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Xyratex Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment tolerances; Optical connectors; Optical interconnections; Optical waveguide crosstalk; Polymer waveguides

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; 80 GB/S; ACTIVE ALIGNMENTS; ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES; ALIGNMENT TOLERANCES; BURIED CHANNELS; COUPLING LASERS; DIRECT-COUPLINGS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LATERAL MISALIGNMENTS; LOW COSTS; MECHANICALLY TRANSFERABLE CONNECTORS; MULTILAYER PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; MULTIPLE MATING; OPTICAL CONNECTORS; OPTICAL COUPLING LOSS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS; PHOTODIODE ARRAYS; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIGID PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SELF-ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL TO CROSSTALK RATIOS; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS;

ALIGNMENT; BANDPASS FILTERS; CROSSTALK; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; FITS AND TOLERANCES; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODIODES; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 67349181811     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2008.924243     Document Type: Article

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