Based on the structure of substrate-mode holograms, a new type of 1-to
-(N x N) optical fan-out module which consists of two layers of gratin
g arrays for optical interconnects is presented. The first and second
layer have a I x N grating array and a N x N grating array, respective
ly. By suitably choosing the diffracted angle and diffraction efficien
cy of every grating, similar diffraction will be performed repeatedly
at every grating. Finally, N x N output beams are obtained.