Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Board-to-board free-space optical interconnections passing through boards for a bookshelf-assembled terabit-per-second-class ATM switch

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

We propose free-space optical interconnections for a bookshelf-assembled terabit-per-second-class ATM switch. Thousands of arrayed optical beams, each having a rate of a few gigabits per second, propagate vertically to printed circuit boards, passing through some boards, and are connected to arbitrary transmitters and receivers on boards by polarization controllers and prism arrays. We describe a preliminary experiment using a 1-mm-pitch 2 × 2 beam-collimator array that uses vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes. These optical interconnections can be made quite stable in terms of mechanical shock and temperature fluctuation by the attachment of reinforcing frames to the boards and use of an autoalignment system.

© 1998 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Design, implementation, and characterization of a hybrid optical interconnect for a four-stage free-space optical backplane demonstrator

Yongsheng Liu, Brian Robertson, Guillaume C. Boisset, Michael H. Ayliffe, Rajiv Iyer, and David V. Plant
Appl. Opt. 37(14) 2895-2914 (1998)

Terabit optical local area networks for multiprocessing systems

Ted H. Szymanski, Albert Au, Myriam Lafrenière-Roula, Victor Tyan, Boonchuay Supmonchai, James Wong, Belkacem Zerrouk, and Stefan Thomas Obenaus
Appl. Opt. 37(2) 264-275 (1998)

Design approaches for VCSEL’s and VCSEL-based smart pixels toward parallel optoelectronic processing systems

Takashi Kurokawa, Shinji Matso, Tatsushi Nakahara, Kota Tateno, Yoshitaka Ohiso, Atsushi Wakatsuki, and Hiroyuki Tsuda
Appl. Opt. 37(2) 194-204 (1998)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (14)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Tables (1)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Article tables are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (1)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved