Reconfigurable polymer based substrate mode optical interconnects

The reconfigurable optical interconnects proposed by PolarOnyx, Inc. use electronically controlled digital grating processors (DGPs) in conjunction with a substrate guided wave plate to propagate and process optical signals at a chip level. The DGPs willhave reconfiguration functions integrated such as switching, power management, and/or wavelength management. The planar structure provides features of robustness, compactness, and low cost. By doing such kind of interconnecting functions, the dataprocessing speed increases dramatically and the system becomes more efficient and compact compared with current approaches. This reconfigurable optical interconnects can be used by the Air Force satellite communication systems with the concept of