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IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume 18 Number 11, November 2000

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Optical Interconnection Using VCSELs and Polymeric Waveguide Circuits

Takashi Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Member, IEEE, Member, OSA Makoto Hikita, Member, IEEE Toshiaki Kagawa, Member, IEEE Kouta Tateno and Chikara Amano Member, IEEE, Member, OSA

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Abstract:

We investigated the waveguide loss and transmission characteristics for optical interconnection using vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and multimode polymeric waveguide circuits with crossings. The excess loss with 100 crossings is 2.2 dB when the image magnification from a VCSEL to a waveguide is 2.3. We obtained error-free (i.e., bit error rate < 10-11) optical interconnection at 1.0625 Gbps regardless of the number of crossings or the magnification. These results suggest the practicality of large-scale optical interconnection between VCSEL-based smart-pixel chips using multimode waveguides with more than 100 crossings.

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