NON-LINEAR GRADIENT INDEX (GRIN) OPTICAL BACKPLANE

摘要

Technologies are generally described to fabricate an optical circuit board with a non-linear gradient index (GRIN) optical backplane. An optical backplane with a non- linear GRIN may be formed as a circuit board enabling communicative coupling between at least two components on the circuit board and/or between one or more components and an optical interface via one or more optical pathways within the optical backplane. The components may be placed at a location along one or more surfaces of the non-linear GRIN optical backplane based on an approximate angle of incidence for the optical pathways between a component and other components to be coupled to the component. The components may be further placed to enable an optical communication signal projection from the optical interface to arrive at one or more of the placed components.