TY - GEN
T1 - Direct fabrication for multimode/single-mode polymer optical waveguides on printed circuit board using the mosquito method
AU - Marushima, Chinami
AU - Ishigure, Takaaki
PY - 2019/1/4
Y1 - 2019/1/4
N2 - We have proposed the Mosquito method to fabricate polymer optical waveguides with graded-index (GI) circular cores and demonstrated their excellent optical property. We have employed glass substrate which has a smooth surface for the waveguide fabrication using the Mosquito method. However, waveguides integrated on PCBs are expected for the on-board optical interconnection applications. The Mosquito method have a capability to directly fabricate waveguides on PCBs.In this paper, optical waveguides are fabricated on PCBs directly using FR-4 substrates which are a standard PCB. Here, the waveguide facet termination process is very important. Generally, waveguide ends are cut with the PCB using a dicing saw or polished after fabricating the waveguides separately from PCBs. In this paper, we propose a new waveguide facet termination process, which could be involved in the Mosquito method, and report the improvement of coupling efficiency to other optical components because the waveguide ends have sufficiently smooth surfaces.
AB - We have proposed the Mosquito method to fabricate polymer optical waveguides with graded-index (GI) circular cores and demonstrated their excellent optical property. We have employed glass substrate which has a smooth surface for the waveguide fabrication using the Mosquito method. However, waveguides integrated on PCBs are expected for the on-board optical interconnection applications. The Mosquito method have a capability to directly fabricate waveguides on PCBs.In this paper, optical waveguides are fabricated on PCBs directly using FR-4 substrates which are a standard PCB. Here, the waveguide facet termination process is very important. Generally, waveguide ends are cut with the PCB using a dicing saw or polished after fabricating the waveguides separately from PCBs. In this paper, we propose a new waveguide facet termination process, which could be involved in the Mosquito method, and report the improvement of coupling efficiency to other optical components because the waveguide ends have sufficiently smooth surfaces.
KW - OPCB
KW - Optical interconnection
KW - polymer optical waveguide
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSJ.2018.8602767
DO - 10.1109/ICSJ.2018.8602767
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061704219
T3 - 2018 IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2018
SP - 159
EP - 162
BT - 2018 IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2018
Y2 - 19 November 2018 through 21 November 2018
ER -