title: Loss analysis for a two wire optical waveguide for chip-to-chip communication.
abstract: We propose an optical interconnect system for chip-to-chip communication using gold bond wires as a two wire waveguide. Here the loss of such a waveguide is determined for near-IR wavelengths, for different wire sizes and configurations, and show that we can achieve transmission loss coefficients less than 0.4 mm(-1) (1.7 dB/mm) making chip-to-chip optical communication possible using two-wire transmission lines made of standard gold bond wires. Such an optical waveguide scheme would greatly simplify inter-chip optical communication compared with existing waveguide concepts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, 140 Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716, USA. jond@udel.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dickason
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Goossen