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 agHeiden, Switzerland

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

– Telecom / Datacom– Sensors for different applications (series)– Photonic packaging

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Electro-Optical Circuit Board Based on Photolitho

Electrical layers

Lower claddingCore

Upper cladding

Light turning devicewith beam shaping

Transmitter / Receiver

Connector (direct or 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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ManufacturingSubstrate Lower cladding

depositionUV-curing

Core layer depositionPhotolithographyRemoval

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

WaveguideLED

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

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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