Optical clock distribution in supercomputers using polyimide-based waveguides

Bipin Bihari; Jianhua Gan; Linghui Wu; Yujie Liu; Suning Tang; Ray T. Chen

doi:10.1117/12.344600

13 April 1999 Optical clock distribution in supercomputers using polyimide-based waveguides

Bipin Bihari, Jianhua Gan, Linghui Wu, Yujie Liu, Suning Tang, Ray T. Chen

Proceedings Volume 3632, Optoelectronic Interconnects VI; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.344600
Event: Optoelectronics '99 - Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Guided-wave optics is a promising way to deliver high-speed clock-signal in supercomputer with minimized clock-skew. Si- CMOS compatible polymer-based waveguides for optoelectronic interconnects and packaging have been fabricated and characterized. A 1-to-48 fanout optoelectronic interconnection layer (OIL) structure based on Ultradel 9120/9020 for the high-speed massive clock signal distribution for a Cray T-90 supercomputer board has been constructed. The OIL employs multimode polymeric channel waveguides in conjunction with surface-normal waveguide output coupler and 1-to-2 splitters. Surface-normal couplers can couple the optical clock signals into and out from the H-tree polyimide waveguides surface-normally, which facilitates the integration of photodetectors to convert optical-signal to electrical-signal. A 45-degree surface- normal couplers has been integrated at each output end. The measured output coupling efficiency is nearly 100 percent. The output profile from 45-degree surface-normal coupler were calculated using Fresnel approximation. the theoretical result is in good agreement with experimental result. A total insertion loss of 7.98 dB at 850 nm was measured experimentally.

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Bipin Bihari, Jianhua Gan, Linghui Wu, Yujie Liu, Suning Tang, and Ray T. Chen "Optical clock distribution in supercomputers using polyimide-based waveguides", Proc. SPIE 3632, Optoelectronic Interconnects VI, (13 April 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.344600

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