Distributed crossbar interconnects with vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser-angle multiplexing and fiber image guides

Interconnection of a two-dimensional array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers to a receiver array by means of a fiber image guide

The implementation of a 10-channel parallel optical interconnect consisting of a two-dimensional array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, a 1.35-m fiber image guide, and a metal-semiconductor-metal receiver array is described. Transmission rates of 250 Mbits/s per channel are demonstrated with an optical cross talk of less than -27 dB and a loss of -3 dB. Coupling issues associated with image guides are analyzed and discussed.

Polymer fiber image guide optical circuits that incorporate free-space add-drop components

We further extend the capability of a polymer-fiber-image-guide-(PFIG-) based optical circuit from a pure point-to-point interconnect scheme to a general-purpose optical network with data-branching capabilities. Two-dimensional array data can be inserted and taken away at free-space add-drop nodes, which are implemented with free-space minioptical components. A four-node hybrid circuit with PFIG's to transmit bit-parallel data and free-space components to perform add-drop is experimentally demonstrated.

Free-space fiber hybrid distributed optical cross-connect interconnect module

We propose implementing a large-scale optical cross-connect network based on a free-space-fiber hybrid interconnect system. The free-space portion of the system is designed to handle shuffle operation of optical beams that need to intersect each other. The fiber portion is used to guide these signals to and from optical transceivers, which can be distributed at different locations. A compact and packaged prototype that handles 256x256 input-output channels is demonstrated.

Polymer fiber-image-guide-based embedded optical circuit board

We propose a poly(methyl methacrylate) fiber-image-guide-based embedded optical circuit board for future optoelectronic array-interconnection applications. An experimental prototypical board that embeds perfect-shuffle and banyan interconnect patterns of 16 x 16 parallel links, each of which offers a fiber pixel density of >1000 pixels/mm(2), are demonstrated experimentally.