Vario-optics Ag

Felix Betschon

Markus Halter

Tobias Lamprecht

Markus Michler

David Bischof

Johannes Kremmel

Stefan Beyer

A test apparatus for electro-optical printed circuit boards having optical waveguides comprises a control device, a beamer and a camera, which can be positioned in such a way that light emitted by the beamer can be coupled by means of a first deflecting element to optical waveguides of the circuit board and can be coupled out by means of a second deflecting element into the field of vision of the camera. The beamer is used in a first phase to determine the position for each deflecting mirror of the first deflecting element which a light spot needs to assume in the image projected by the beamer so that the light spot illuminates the deflecting mirror. The beamer is used in a second phase to illuminate at least one deflecting mirror and to carry out the testing of the optical waveguide associated with the at least one deflecting mirror.

Test apparatus for electro-optical printed circuit boards

An electro-optical printed circuit board contains electrical conductor tracks on the one hand and optical waveguide structures on the other hand. The optical waveguide structures comprise a bottom layer, a core layer and a cladding layer. Visible areas are applied to the printed circuit board, and the core layer is applied later both to the bottom layer as well as the visible areas and structured both on the bottom layer as well as the visible areas. This structure is then transferred to the visible areas, e.g. by etching. Reference marks are thus produced which contain the information on the actual position of the optical waveguide structures.

Method for producing an electro-optical printed circuit board with optical waveguide structures

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St. Gallen, Switzerland

Felix Betschon