Board-to-board optical interconnection system using optical slots

A practical optical backplane system was prepared with transmitter-receiver processing boards and an optical backplane made of polymeric-waveguide-embedded optical printed-circuit boards. As connection components between the transmitter-receiver processing boards and backplane board, optical slots were used to enable easy and repeatable insertion and extraction of the boards with micrometer precision. We report an 8-Gb/s data transmission between transmitter processing board and optical backplane.

[1]  L. Kimerling,et al.  Effect of size and roughness on light transmission in a Si/SiO2 waveguide: Experiments and model , 2000 .

[2]  Suning Tang,et al.  Optical clock distribution in supercomputers using polyimide-based waveguides , 1999, Photonics West.

[3]  V. Ozguz.  Chip-level three-dimensional stacking for free-space optical interconnects , 1998, Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Conference Edition. 1998 Technical Digest Series, Vol.6 (IEEE Cat. No.98CH36178).

[4]  S. Siala,et al.  Optical receiver systems for high speed parallel digital data links , 1995 .

[5]  Ray T. Chen,et al.  Three-dimensionally interconnected multi-bus-line bidirectional optical backplane , 1999 .

[6]  Ronald A. Nordin,et al.  Advanced optical interconnection technology in switching equipment , 1995 .

[7]  Ingrid Moerman,et al.  Realization and characterization of 8/spl times/8 resonant cavity LED arrays mounted onto CMOS drivers for POF-based interchip interconnections , 1999 .

[8]  B.E. Angliss,et al.  A dynamically reconfigurable token-based optical backplane , 1998, 1998 IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting. Digest. Broadband Optical Networks and Technologies: An Emerging Reality. Optical MEMS. Smart Pixels. Organic Optics and Optoelectronics (Cat. No.98TH8369).