Electro-optical co-integration of chip-components in optical transceivers for optical inter-chip communication
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Abstract
This paper discusses a novel packaging approach for electro-optical (E/O) co-integration of IC-chips to realize hetero-integrated transceivers for optical chip-to-chip (C2C) communication. For an integration of chip-components into optical transceivers a polymer package fabricated using additive manufacturing methods are applied. Based on two optical transceiver assemblies - VCSEL-based and Si-photonic-based - different requirements on the package are discussed. For the Si-photonic chips measurements on the lateral and angular misalignment requirements have been performed. The results of the characterization of grating couplers show that the maximum lateral misalignment for 1dB-loss vary between ± 1 μm and ± 3.5 μm. For the angular sensitivity the 1dB-tolerances of +/- 2° at the in-coupling interface and of about +/- 0.4° at the out-coupling have been measured. The simultaneous IC-device embedding and chip-carrier fabrication using casting method is proposed. By subsequent build-up of dielectric/metal multilayer stack an electrical and optical redistribution network for routing of both optical and electrical signals can be realized. A hybrid polymer Ormocer® material has been applied as optical and dielectric material enabling the E/O co-integration using one material class. The performance of this material in both domains optical and RF has been proven. Based on attenuation measurements of multimode optical waveguides low-loss transmission of <; 0.05 dB/cm at 850 nm wavelength has been shown. Based on transmission-line (TL) measurements in the frequency range of 140 GHz to 220 GHz the superior dielectric properties with TL-losses of about 1.1 dB/mm have been achieved.
Details
| Original language | German |
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| Title of host publication | 2020 IEEE 70th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 139-147 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-1-7281-6181-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Jun 2020 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
| Title | 2020 IEEE 70th Electronic Components and Technology Conference |
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| Abbreviated title | ECTC 2020 |
| Conference number | 70 |
| Duration | 3 - 30 June 2020 |
| Location | online |
| City | Orlando |
| Country | United States of America |
External IDs
| Scopus | 85090266604 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0002-0757-3325/work/139064886 |
Keywords
Keywords
- Optical device fabrication, Integrated optics, Optical fibers, Couplings, Optical polymers, Optical coupling