Free-space optical links for board-to-board interconnects

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 955-965

  Kuo, Huei Pei ^a   Rosenberg, Paul ^a   Walmsley, Robert ^a   Mathai, Sagi ^a   Kiyama, Lennie ^a   Straznicky, Joseph ^a   McLaren, Moray ^a   Tan, Michael ^a   Wang, Shih Yuan ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Board to board optical link; Free space optics; Lenslet arrays; Magnetic coupling; Misalignment tolerant; Optical interconnect; Parallel optics; Proximity coupler; Proximity interconnect; Telecentric lenses

Indexed keywords

BOARD TO BOARD OPTICAL LINK; FREE-SPACE OPTICS; LENSLET ARRAYS; MISALIGNMENT TOLERANT; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; PARALLEL OPTICS; PROXIMITY COUPLER; PROXIMITY INTERCONNECT; TELECENTRIC LENSES;

ALIGNMENT; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LENSES; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 67649124271     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-009-5144-z     Document Type: Article

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