Optical backplanes with integrated polymer waveguides

Joerg Moisel; Richard Bogenberger; Joachim Guttmann; Hans-Peter Huber; Oskar Krumpholz; Klaus-Peter Kuhn; Manfred Rode

doi:10.1117/1.602413

1 March 2000 Optical backplanes with integrated polymer waveguides

Joerg Moisel, Richard Bogenberger, Joachim Guttmann, Hans-Peter Huber, Oskar Krumpholz, Klaus-Peter Kuhn, Manfred Rode

Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 3, (March 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602413

An optical backplane for high bit rate data transmission between processor boards is presented. The backplane consists of low- loss polymer multimode waveguides, integrated micromirrors and lenses for focusing/collimation. Free space transmission is used for the coupling between processor boards and the backplane. Due to an expanded beam, high alignment tolerances between the boards and the backplane are obtained. Backplanes are realized for a 55 cm (21 in.) interconnection length, for a ring network and for a 4 x4 star network. For each backplane, data transmission with a bit rate > 1 Gbit/s is demonstrated and first environmental tests are successfully passed.

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Joerg Moisel, Richard Bogenberger, Joachim Guttmann, Hans-Peter Huber, Oskar Krumpholz, Klaus-Peter Kuhn, and Manfred Rode "Optical backplanes with integrated polymer waveguides," Optical Engineering 39(3), (1 March 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602413

Published: 1 March 2000

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