Dou Xinyuan, Wang Alan X, Lin Xiaohui, Chen Ray T
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, TX 78758, USA.
Opt Express. 2011 Jul 18;19(15):14403-10. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.014403.
In this paper, an innovative 3-to-3 bi-directional optical bus architecture based on multimode polymer waveguides with embedded 45° micro-mirrors was successfully demonstrated. With a lithography-free imprinting process by high quality electroplated metallic mold, the device can be precisely replicated with a low fabrication cost. Superior to any point-to-point optical waveguide, the implemented optical bus structure is capable of broadcasting and receiving high speed data at 10 Gbit/sec among multiple points as a high performance optical backplane.
本文成功展示了一种基于带有嵌入式45°微镜的多模聚合物波导的创新型3对3双向光总线架构。通过使用高质量电镀金属模具的无光刻压印工艺，该器件能够以较低的制造成本精确复制。与任何点对点光波导相比，所实现的光总线结构能够作为高性能光背板在多个点之间以10 Gbit/秒的速度广播和接收高速数据。
