Design and implementation of an electro-optical backplane with pluggable in-plane connectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7607, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Pitwon, Richard C A ^a   Hopkins, Ken ^a   Wang, Kai ^b   Selviah, David R ^b   Baghsiahi, Hadi ^b   Offrein, Bert J ^c   Dangel, Roger ^c   Horst, Folkert ^c   Halter, Markus ^d   Gmür, Max ^d  

^a Xyratex Technology Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Varioprint AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Optical alignment; Optical interconnect; Optical polymer; Optical printed circuit boards; Optical waveguides; Pluggable optical connector

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL ALIGNMENTS; OPTICAL CONNECTORS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; OPTICAL POLYMERS; OPTICAL PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

ALIGNMENT; DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 77951833181     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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