45 Degree Polymer Micromirror Integration for Board-Level Three-Dimensional Optical Interconnects

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10514-10521

  Wang, Fengtao ^a   Liu, Fuhan ^a   Adibi, Ali ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS; MANUFACTURE; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT COUPLINGS; PCB MANUFACTURING; POLYMER LAYERS; POLYMER MICROMIRROR; POLYMER OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE; SURFACE NORMALS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET BEAMS;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 67649268136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010514     Document Type: Article

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