ABSTRACT
We report for the first time, to our knowledge, the characteristics of a so-called nondiffracting beam produced by illumination of a binary-phase reflective holographic optical element with light from a diode laser. The Bessel beam has an intensity profile whose pattern changes little over distances of order 1 m and has a 1/e amplitude radius for the central lobe of â¼100 µm. This beam may have application for alignment of integrated optic elements in which unguided diffraction-free beams are used to align glass-slab elements containing interconnection holograms to a computer board. The aligning Bessel beam would be produced on reflection from a hologram on the glass-substrate interconnecting element. A single hologram may be used for different substrates having different lengths and functionality because of the large depth of field of the Bessel beam.
ABSTRACT
The distribution of optical signals to a monolithic array of GaAs photoconductors by means of ion-exchanged glass optical waveguides is demonstrated. In this hybrid technique both optical and electronic interconnections of semiconductor elements are achieved through the use of a metallic interconnect layer deposited on the surface of a glass substrate which has a mating waveguide pattern. The low optical loss, ease of fabrication, and low material cost of diffused glass waveguides with such layers permit relatively large optoelectronic circuit boards to be made, in which numerous semiconductor active optoelectronic devices can be included. The device reported here serves as the signal distribution and cross-point switching section of an optoelectronic switch matrix.
