The Polyguide™ /GuideLink™ publication and presentation archive file contains all relevant items that we are aware of regarding polymer waveguides and applications using the Optical InterLink (OIL) technology referred to as GuideLink&trade and when the OIL team was at DuPont referred to as Polyguide?.
The first publication was in 1988. During the next few years presentations primarily were on single mode waveguide technology and devices. Starting around 1993, publications included both multimode and single mode work. Single and multimode applications and technology was described in presentations, publications, and book chapters covering bubble switches, polymeric (single mode) thermal switches, splitters, gratings and connectivity issues though the mid 1990's. Early multimode circuit board applications potential was demonstrated with DEC and published in 1994.
A number of publications from the mid 1990's and beyond were related to the DARPA funded POLO (Parallel Optical Link Organization) and POINT (Parallel Optical Interconnect Technology) where robust packaging was introduced along with I/O deflecting mirrors, MT connectorization, and initial circuit board interconnections using multimode guides.
Authors included those from all involved organizations such as HP (Aglient), AMP (Tyco/AMP), SDL, USC, and DuPont. Developmental and thesis work at the U.of Ghent in Belgium described a number of practical interconnectivity topics and in particular results for star coupler devices. Recent publications have emphasized multimode technology, packaging, connectivity and growing applications capability and potential for chip and board level interconnections, stacked circuits and high density and board to board connectivity.
This website has the most recent work in the form of Technical and Applications Notes.
Some of the links below are to article or papers generated by organization other than those directly connected to OIL.
There are excellent informative examples of recent work by Intel discussing polymer waveguide applications with reference to Optical InterLinks technology for chip interconnections. Extensive information regarding optical interconnects and alternatives has been reported on the internet.
