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  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 22,
  • Issue 9,
  • pp. 2128-
  • (2004)

PCB-Compatible Optical Interconnection Using 45°-Ended Connection Rods and Via-Holed Waveguides

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Abstract

In this paper, a new architecture for a chip-to-chip optical interconnection system is demonstrated that can be applied in a waveguide-embedded optical printed circuit board (PCB). The experiment used 45°-ended optical connection rods as a medium to guide light paths perpendicularly between vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), or photodiodes (PDs) and a waveguide. A polymer film of multimode waveguides with cores of 100 × 65 µm was sandwiched between conventional PCBs. Via holes were made with a diameter of about 140 µm by CO2-laser drilling through the PCB and the waveguide. Optical connection rods were made of a multimode silica fiber ribbon segment with a core diameter of 62.5 and 100 µm. One end of the fiber segment was cut 45° and the other end 90° by a mechanical polishing method. These fiber rods were inserted into the via holes formed in the PCB, adjusting the insertion depth to locate the 45° end of rods near the waveguide cores. From this interconnection system, a total coupling efficiency of about -8 dB was achieved between VCSELs and PDs through connection rods and a 2.5 Gb/s × 12-ch data link demonstrated through waveguides with a channel pitch of 250 µm in the optical PCB.

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