Marc P.Y. DESMULLIEZ,¹ Patrick W. FOULK¹ and Mohammad R. TAGHIZADEH²

¹Department of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK, ²Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK

(Received May 9, 1996; Accepted July 26, 1996)

We propose an optical H-tree structure to distribute a clock signal onto 16 electronic chips at 1 Gb/s for a clock skew and timing jitter of less than 100 ps. Fabrication steps and performance results are presented.

Key words : optical interconnections, optical clock distribution, guided-wave technology, polymer waveguides