Free-space optical interconnects have been proposed as a possible solution to the interconnection bottleneck in high performance electronic systems at the board-to-board and chip-to-chip level. The optical design is shown of a VCSEL-based bi-directional optical interconnect system that has recently been implemented This clustered optical system transmits 256 channels in each direction and is based on a diffractive double minilens relay. The relay lenses have a square aperture of 750 /spl mu/m, a focal length of 8.5 mm, 256 phase levels and operate at a wavelength of 850 nm. Each lens relays a 4 /spl times/ 4 spot array on a 125 /spl mu/m pitch. This system was originally designed using scalar diffraction theory and so it was assumed that the diffraction efficiency is a function only of the number of phase levels in the lenses and is thus identical for all beams in the array. However since each beam within the 4 /spl times/ 4 array passes through a different set of zones in the lenses and since the outer zones of the lenses have smaller local periods than the central zones the diffraction efficiency experienced by each beam will not be identical, leading to transmission non-uniformity. In this paper we will apply rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA) to this optical system design in order to accurately determine the efficiency of the minilens as a function of the zone radius and hence calculate the variation in transmission efficiency that will result. We will also extend this analysis to faster diffractive optical systems (f/3.7) that relay larger (16 /spl times/ 16) spot arrays and investigate polarization dependence.


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    Title :

    Transmission uniformity of diffractive parallel optical interconnect relays: a numerical analysis based on rigorous coupled wave theory


    Contributors:
    Alleyne, C.J. (author) / Kirk, A.G. (author)


    Publication date :

    2002-01-01


    Size :

    129353 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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