title: Polymer waveguides for electro-optical integration in data centers and high-performance computers.
abstract: To satisfy the intra- and inter-system bandwidth requirements of future data centers and high-performance computers, low-cost low-power high-throughput optical interconnects will become a key enabling technology. To tightly integrate optics with the computing hardware, particularly in the context of CMOS-compatible silicon photonics, optical printed circuit boards using polymer waveguides are considered as a formidable platform. IBM Research has already demonstrated the essential silicon photonics and interconnection building blocks. A remaining challenge is electro-optical packaging, i.e., the connection of the silicon photonics chips with the system. In this paper, we present a new single-mode polymer waveguide technology and a scalable method for building the optical interface between silicon photonics chips and single-mode polymer waveguides.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dangel
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hofrichter
authors.forename: Folkert
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Horst
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jubin
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: La Porta
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.forename: Ibrahim Murat
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Soganci
authors.forename: Jonas
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Bert Jan
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Offrein