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World Class Supplier of Leading Edge Electro-Optical Circuit Boards

Company Presentation

Agenda

• vario-optics ag
• EOCB Technology
• ICT Applications
• Sensor Applications
• Photonic Packaging

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vario-optics ag

Heiden, Switzerland

• Manufacturer of electro-optical circuit boards (EOCB) since 2002
• Spin-off from Varioprint in 2009
• Addressed markets:

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Telecom / Datacom

–

Sensors for different applications (series)

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Photonic packaging

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Electro-Optical Circuit Board Based on Photolitho

Electrical layers Lower cladding Core Upper cladding Light turning device with beam shaping Transmitter / Receiver Connector (direct

• r lensed

coupling)

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Applications and Markets

Applications:

• Photonic packaging
• Optical switching
• Optical sensors

(interferometers)

• Lab on chip
• High speed optical data transfer

Markets

• Information and communication

technologies

• Instrumentation
• Bio-medical
• Industrial
• Aerospace

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Manufacturing

Substrate Lower cladding deposition UV-curing Core layer deposition Photolithography Removal Upper cladding deposition UV-curing PCB lamination and finishing

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Efficient and Cost-Effective Manufacturing

• Efficient realization of complex optical layers

via photolithography

• High density of optical interconnects
• Robust, waveguides are protected

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EOCB's for Storage and Information Technology

• Multi Tb/s optical backplane ecosystem

– EOCB: Electro-optical PCB – BOATM optical Engine up to 24 x 28 Gbit/s – Optical backplane connector

• Fully functional electro-optical reference board

– 1.4TBit/s transmit & receive – 20 layers electrical – 1 layer optical – 4 optical engines from Finisar – Xilinx Virtex FPGA for simultaneous coding, switching, BER

& eye diagram measurements on all 48 optical channels

– Automated assembly based on double sided reflow

soldering

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EOCB's for Highly Integrated Sensors

• Electro-optical

titration sensor (spectral absorption)

• Laser source for

medical application

• Laser range finder with

passively assembled laserdiode and fibers

Waveguide LED Photodiode Free space - absorption Glass cuvette

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Singlemode Waveguides for Very High-Speed Data Transfer and Sensing

• High speed data transfer > 2 Tbit/s
• Substrates for photonic chip packaging

(www.ict-streams.eu; www.h2020-cosmicc.eu)

20 mm

• Highly integrated sensors and

switches

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PIC area TIA Waveguide

Thermo-optic Switch Highly integrated displacement sensor Integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer

vario-optics ag 10 World Class Supplier of Leading Edge Electro-Optical Circuit Boards

The future is bright!

Contact vario-optics ag Mittelbissaustrasse 7 CH - 9410 Heiden +41 71 898 80 60 info@vario-optics.ch www.vario-optics.ch