An Anchor-Board-Based Flexible Optoelectronic Harness for Off-Chip Optical Interconnects

Chang, Yin-Jung; Guidotti, Daniel; Chang, Gee‐Kung

doi:10.1109/lpt.2008.921822

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“…The concept for an active and flexible optical harness was first introduced in Ref. 12 and is shown in Fig. 2.…”

Section: Optical Backplane Repair Strategymentioning

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“…The penalty for this expedient is long wire bond length and deterioration in performance. While all components used here are capable of 10.7 Gb/s, acceptable eye opening was obtained only at 2 Gb/s [12]. The next step in the development of a fully pluggable active optical harness sub-assembly is clearly to implement electrical pluggability through an electrical connector that is capable of 10 Gb/s performance and also has a small form factor.…”

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Reliability considerations in parallel optical interconnects

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Estevez

Fan

et al. 2009

2009 59th Electronic Components and Technology Conference

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Random failure in a population of lasers after burn-in has profound consequences for the deployment of the optical backplane in high performance computing. It is argued that without an effective field repair strategy the mean time between fails for a large population of lasers can become prohibitive. A field repair strategy must be an integral part of the system design from the outset and must be based on low component replacement cost, minimum system down time, minimum redundancy, and low mass fabrication cost for the replaceable sub-assembly. It is further argued that an example of an acceptable repair strategy is based on an active and electrically pluggable optical harness consisting of a parallel array of polymer waveguides on a flexible substrate. Lasers and photodetectors are pre-aligned to the waveguides and make the harness active. Low cost is ensured by a parallel fabrication process in which all waveguides are simultaneously aligned to their respective lasers and photodetectors in one step.

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“…The concept for an active and flexible optical harness was first introduced in Ref. 12 and is shown in Fig. 2.…”

Section: Optical Backplane Repair Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Optical Backplane Repair Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reliability considerations in parallel optical interconnects

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Estevez

Fan

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2009 59th Electronic Components and Technology Conference

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“…All these factors lead to increasingly shorter data buses between processor and main memory, to which is allocated limited available space. Optical bus technology, as a means of transporting data at high rates and channel densities with negligible absorption, dispersion, and crosstalk has been explored by the four developers of high-performance computing technology [6][7][8][9] and also by a number of university-based research groups, including our own [10]. The optical bus technology has not matured.…”

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Toward a 60‐GHz wireless, low‐power, high‐throughput memory access system

Guidotti

Chowdhury

Chien

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Micro & Optical Tech Letters

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We propose a network of bidirectional, wireless data channels, operating in the frequency band of 55–65 GHz, as an efficient means to transfer data between processors and memory nodes distributed on separate boards within the computer box. We address channel throughput, power dissipation, form factor, and crosstalk abatement. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 2969–2973, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24779

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Photonic System Integration of Optical Waveguides in MOEMS

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2012

Bio and Nano Packaging Techniques for Electron Devices

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An Anchor-Board-Based Flexible Optoelectronic Harness for Off-Chip Optical Interconnects

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Reliability considerations in parallel optical interconnects

Reliability considerations in parallel optical interconnects

Toward a 60‐GHz wireless, low‐power, high‐throughput memory access system

Photonic System Integration of Optical Waveguides in MOEMS

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