High performance ion-exchanged integrated waveguides in thin glass for board-level multimode optical interconnects

Brusberg, L.; Fiebig, C.; Zakharian, A.; Kuchinsky, S.; Liu, X.; Fortusini, D.; Evans, A.; Schröder, Henning; Herbst, Christian; Frey, Christopher

doi:10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341714

September 21, 2015

Conference Paper

Abstract

We fabricated ion-exchanged graded-index optical waveguides in alkali-aluminosilicate glass showing excellent potential for optical backplane and electrical-optical circuit board applications. Motivation and process details are given and experimental results are discussed.