RF-Flexible-Interconnection-Line

At a Glance

  • Ultra-fast, low-loss and flexible electrical interconnects for opto-electrical packaging

Technical Background

Ultra-fast, low-loss and flexible electrical coplanar waveguides for interconnecting drivers to laser and photo detectors to transimpedance amplifieres (TIAs) with bandwiths exeeding 200 GHz

Characteristics:

  • Fabricated on wafer scale
  • Customized design available
  • Flexible electrical interconnects
  • RF characterization set-up
  • Transmission: >> 200 GHz 
  • Reflection: <-20 dB

Features 

Polymer embedded electrical coplanar waveguides.

  • Bandwidth > 200GHz
  • Customized design
  • mm to cm scale

Applications

High speed flexible electrical chip to chip interconnect:

  • Driver-to-LD
  • PD-to-TIA

 

Fabrication on wafer scale, customized design (left), Flexible electrical interconnects (middle), RF characterization set-up (right)
Transmission: >> 200 GHz (left), Reflection: <-20 dB (right)
1.6 Tb/s optical transceiver with RF-Flexible-Interconnection-Line for intra datacenter connectivity (EU POETICS)