Optical Polymer Waveguides

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Current Development in the Field of Optical Short-Range Interconnects

   • Lukas Lorenz, Karlheinz Bock

   Pages 1-13

3. Computer-Aided Design of Electro-Optical Assemblies

   • Jochen Zeitler, Jörg Franke

   Pages 15-59

4. Three-Dimensional Simulations of Optical Multimode Waveguides

   • Carsten Backhaus, Florian Loosen, Norbert Lindlein

   Pages 61-111

5. Conditioning of Flexible Substrates for the Application of Optical Waveguides

   • Gerd-Albert Hoffmann, Alexander Wienke, Stefan Kaierle, Ludger Overmeyer

   Pages 113-172

6. Aerosol Jet Printing of Polymer Optical Waveguides

   • Mohd-Khairulamzari Hamjah, Thomas Reitberger, Lukas Lorenz, Jörg Franke

   Pages 173-216

7. 3D-Opto-MID Coupling Concept Using Printed Waveguides

   • Lukas Lorenz, Carsten Backhaus, Karlheinz Bock, Norbert Lindlein

   Pages 217-269

8. Feasibility of Printed Optical Waveguides Over the Entire Process Chain by OPTAVER

   • Gerd-Albert Hoffmann, Alexander Wienke, Stefan Kaierle, Ludger Overmeyer, Mohd-Khairulamzari Hamjah, Thomas Reitberger et al.

   Pages 271-278

Light signals in optical waveguides can be used to transmit very large amounts of data quickly and largely without interference. In the industrial and infrastructural sectors, e.g. in the automotive and aerospace industries, the demand to further exploit this potential is therefore increasing. Which technologies can be used to effectively integrate systems that transmit data by means of light into existing components? This is a central question for current research. So far, there have been some technical limitations in this regard. For example, it is difficult to couple the signal of an optical waveguide to other optical waveguides without interruption. There is also a lack of suitable fabrication technologies for three-dimensional waveguides, as well as design and simulation environments for 3D opto-MID. This book addresses these and other challenges.

• Polymer Optical Waveguide
• Optical connectors
• 3D-Opto_MID
• Printed Optics
• Optical Design and Simulation
• Laser Material Processing
• Optical fibres
• Electro Optics

• Lehrstuhl für Fertigungsautomatisierung und Produktionssystematik, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

  Jörg Franke

• Institut für Transport- und Automatisierungstechnik, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Garbsen, Germany

  Ludger Overmeyer

• Institut für Optik, Information und Photonik, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

  Norbert Lindlein

• Institut für Aufbau- und Verbindungstechnik der Elektronik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

  Karlheinz Bock, Klaus-Jürgen Wolter

• Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany

  Stefan Kaierle

• Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Coherent LaserSystems GmbH & Co. KG, Hannover, Germany

  Oliver Suttmann

Prof. Dr.-Ing Jörg Franke is head of the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Overmeyer heads the Institute of Transport and Automation Technology (ITA) at the Leibniz University Hannover and is a member of the management board of the Institute of Integrated Production Hannover (IPH). In November 2009 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Overmeyer has become a member of the Executive Board of Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V

apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Norbert Lindlein leads the group "Optical Design, Microoptics and Measurement (ODEM)" of the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. mult. Karlheinz Bock is the head of the Institute of Electronic Packaging Technology (IAVT) at the Technische Universität Dresden.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kaierle is Executive Board Member at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. and Professor for Laser Additive Processing at the Leibniz University Hannover.

Dr.-Ing. Oliver Suttmann is responsible for the Production & Systems Department at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h. c. mult. Klaus-Jürgen Wolter is emeritus professor and former head of the Institute of Electronic Packaging Technology (IAVT) at the Technische Universität Dresden.

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