Microarray Electrophoretic DNA Mapping System

65731 Highly parallel optical interconnect systems are needed to harness the unprecedented bandwidth of dense wave division multiplexing for Department of Energy high performance computing and other computing-intensive scientific applications. This project will develop a rugged, highly parallel, multilayer board level optical interconnect that can be cost effectively mass produced by simple holographic lithography. Waveguiding in photopolymer material will be utilized to meet current and future interconnect requirements. Phase I will design and analyze a multilayer polymer-based holographic optical interconnect system, fabricate all critical components, and demonstrate the feasibility of single exposure fabrication of these multilayer optical component structures Commercial Applications And Other Benefits as described by awardee: The new technology should lead to local board level interconnects with unprecedented cost/performance. This will benefit not only subsurface monitoring but also highly parallel computers, communications systems, high bandwidth memory systems, medical applications, radar signal processing, and ballistic missile defense systems.