Array waveguide evanescent coupler for optical interconnect

Jame J. Yang; Jian Wu; Michael R. Wang

doi:10.1117/12.589453

Array waveguide evanescent coupler for optical interconnect

Jame J. Yang, Jian Wu, Michael R. Wang

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

We present a novel array waveguide evanescent coupler (AWEC) for card-to-backplane or other appropriate optical interconnect applications. Three approaches to realize the AWEC ribbons were experimentally demonstrated. These results show that the new coupler facilitates easy coupling between card and backplane waveguides. It eliminates the problems of 90° out of plane turn using 45° etched waveguide mirror and local waveguide termination. The implementation of the coupler ribbon and coupler hardware at low cost will be significant for high-speed optical data bus in advanced computing systems.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	12
Pages (from-to)	79-86
Number of pages	8
Journal	Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume	5731
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.589453
State	Published - Jul 21 2005
Event	Photonics Packaging and Integration V - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Jan 27 2005 → Jan 27 2005

Keywords

Array couplers
Card-to-backplane
Fiber optics
Optical interconnection
Waveguides

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomaterials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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