Patent ID: 7851816

Claim:
An optoelectronics chip-to-chip interconnection system comprising: at least one substrate; at least one packaged mounted on said at least one substrate; at least one Optical-Electrical conversion (O-E) board located in close proximity to and electrically connected to said at least one packaged chip, wherein said at least one O-E board comprises: at least one optical component for conversion of optical signal to electrical signal and/or optical component for conversion of electrical signal to optical signal; and at least one waveguide board located in close physical proximity to and electrically connected to said at least one O-E board, wherein said at least one waveguide board comprises: at least one flex or rigid sheet with an array of optical waveguides; at least one flex substrate bonded to said at least one flex or rigid sheet; at least one set of via-holes passing through its peripheral sides; and at least one set of electrodes passing through the via-holes to electrically connect said at least one packaged chip to a printed circuit board (PCB).