An optical interconnect employing planar volume Bragg hologram technology in two dimensions comprises a dichromated gelatin planar volume Bragg hologram (22) disposed in a glass planar optical path (24). Multiplexed Bragg plane sets selectively diffract information-bearing light signals such as voice, image, or computer data signals in a VLSI system from a laser diode or LED source (26) coupled to the planar optical path (24) toward high-speed photodiodes. The holographic planar optical interconnect can interconnect up to 1000 different signals between VLSI microelectronic components and systems.
Holographic planar optical interconnect.