Polymer multimode waveguide optical and electronic PCB manufacturing

David R. Selviah

doi:10.1117/12.811529

10 February 2009 Polymer multimode waveguide optical and electronic PCB manufacturing

David R. Selviah

Proceedings Volume 7219, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XI; 721905 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811529
Event: SPIE OPTO: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The paper describes the research in the £1.3 million IeMRC Integrated Optical and Electronic Interconnect PCB Manufacturing (OPCB) Flagship Project in which 8 companies and 3 universities carry out collaborative research and which was formed and is technically led by the author. The consortium's research is aimed at investigating a range of fabrication techniques, some established and some novel, for fabricating polymer multimode waveguides from several polymers, some formulations of which are being developed within the project. The challenge is to develop low cost waveguide manufacturing techniques compatible with commercial PCB manufacturing and to reduce their alignment cost. The project aims to take the first steps in making this hybrid optical waveguide and electrical copper track printed circuit board disruptive technology widely available by establishing and incorporating waveguide design rules into commercial PCB layout software and transferring the technology for fabricating such boards to a commercial PCB manufacturer. To focus the research the project is designing an optical waveguide backplane to tight realistic constraints, using commercial layout software with the new optical design rules, for a demonstrator into which 4 daughter cards are plugged, each carrying an aggregate of 80 Gb/s data so that each waveguide carries 10 Gb/s.

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David R. Selviah "Polymer multimode waveguide optical and electronic PCB manufacturing", Proc. SPIE 7219, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XI, 721905 (10 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811529

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