Polymer optical waveguides integrated in printed circuit boards
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lehmacher, S.; Neyer, A.; Mederer, F.
- Source
- Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551) Optical communication Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on. 3:302-303 vol.3 2001
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical polymers
Optical waveguides
Integrated optics
Printed circuits
Optical receivers
Optical transmitters
Electromagnetic waveguides
Optical attenuators
Optical interconnections
Optical device fabrication
- Language
Temperature stable polymer optical waveguides have been realised and integrated into printed circuit boards (PCB). A special waveguide fabrication process based on hot embossing has been developed which is compatible with standard PCB processing technologies.