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Increasing demands for high bandwidth electronic systems lead to increasing needs for new interconnection concepts and technologies. A promising concept is to extend the established electrical interconnection technology by optical interconnections on system, module and component level. As printed circuit boards belong today as well as in future to the most important interconnect devices, the realization of electrical printed circuit boards with integrated optical interconnects is a very important interdisciplinary R&D task. This paper addresses the ion-exchange technology for realizing optical layers with integrated multimode waveguides. The ion-exchange process requires an appropriate simulation model which allows to analyze and to optimize all process parameters. Based on the principle diffusion characteristics an approach for modeling and simulation of the ion-exchange process is presented. The results are used to derive a model for calculating the process parameters necessary for obtaining waveguides with desired optical characteristics.
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Kühler, T., Griese, E. (2013). Modeling the Diffusion Process for Developing Optical Waveguides for PC-Board Integration. In: Fathi, M. (eds) Integration of Practice-Oriented Knowledge Technology: Trends and Prospectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34471-8_20
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