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Polymer optical waveguide fabrication using laser ablation
conference contribution
posted on 2011-11-09, 15:15 authored by Shefiu S. Zakariyah, Paul ConwayPaul Conway, David HuttDavid Hutt, David Selviah, Kai Wang, Hadi Baghsiahi, Jeremy Rygate, Jonathan Calver, Witold KandulskiDue to their inherent bandwidth capacity, optical
interconnects are replacing copper as bottlenecks begin to
appear within the various interconnect levels of electronics
systems. Current optical interconnect solutions found in
industry are based upon optical fibres and are capable of
providing a suitable platform for inter-board applications.
However, to allow high speed interconnects between
components and within systems, optically enabled printed
circuit boards containing waveguides are essential. One way
in which this can be accomplished is through the integration of
polymer optical waveguides into traditional printed circuit
boards (PCBs). There are a number of routes to accomplish
this including photolithography and laser direct imaging,
however, this paper explores laser ablation using UV and IR
sources namely: 248 nm Excimer, 355 nm UV Nd:YAG and
10.6 μm CO2, to form waveguide structures in optical polymer
materials. The paper presents the process route and initial
results of trials conducted to fabricate waveguides and indicate
the variation in the structures formed by the different lasers.
The demonstration of the use of these three lasers for optical
waveguide fabrication may provide a route to the rapid
deployment of this technology into the PCB industry through
the use of existing infrastructure.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Citation
ZAKARIYAH, S.S....et al., 2009. Polymer optical waveguide fabrication using laser ablation. IN: 11th Electronics Packaging Technology Conference, (EPTC '09). Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 9 - 11 December, 7pp.Publisher
© IEEEVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2009Notes
© 2009 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.ISBN
9781424451005;9781424450992Publisher version
Language
- en