Bandwidth studies on multimode polymer waveguides for high speed board level optical interconnects

Page 1. Bandwidth studies on multimode polymer waveguides for high-speed board-level optical interconnects RV Penty, N. Bamiedakis, J. Chen, IH White Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge nb301@cam.ac.uk Photonics West, 9th February 2015 Page 2. 2 Outline • Introduction • Multimode polymer waveguide technology • Waveguide bandwidth modelling • Frequency response measurements • Time domain measurements • 40 Gb/s data transmission demonstration • Conclusions Page 3. 3 Need for bandwidth → Optics J. Bautista, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits Vii, 2005 Growing demand for data communications link capacity in: - data centres - servers - supercomputers → need for high-capacity short-reach interconnects operating at > 10 Gb/s off-chip/ off-module/off-card interconnection bottleneck P. Pepeljugoski et al., paper OMR4, OFC 2007 …