Polymer waveguide-based high-speed clock signal distribution system

Ting Li; Suning Tang; Randy W. Wickman; Linghui Wu; Feiming Li; Michael Dubinovsky; Ray T. Chen

doi:10.1117/12.271080

4 April 1997 Polymer waveguide-based high-speed clock signal distribution system

Ting Li, Suning Tang, Randy W. Wickman, Linghui Wu, Feiming Li, Michael Dubinovsky, Ray T. Chen

Proceedings Volume 3005, Optoelectronic Interconnects and Packaging IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271080
Event: Photonics West '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The increasing demand for clock speed is rapidly exhausting capabilities of interconnection techniques currently employed for high performance supercomputers. In order to address the bottleneck problem at the board level, we have taken a system's approach in developing optoelectronic interconnection layer for board-level high speed optical clock signal distribution. The reported approach employs polymer optical channel waveguides, waveguide clock signal distribution. The reported approach employs polymer based optical channel waveguides, waveguide splitters, and surface-normal waveguide couplers. This paper describes the system architecture, material choice, and fabrication process of board-level waveguides devices to achieve a synchronous global clock signal distribution.

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Ting Li, Suning Tang, Randy W. Wickman, Linghui Wu, Feiming Li, Michael Dubinovsky, and Ray T. Chen "Polymer waveguide-based high-speed clock signal distribution system", Proc. SPIE 3005, Optoelectronic Interconnects and Packaging IV, (4 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271080

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