FirstLight: Pluggable Optical Interconnect Technologies for Polymeric Electro-Optical Printed Circuit Boards in Data Centers
| Autor: | David R. Selviah, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Kai Wang, H Baghsiahi, Bert Jan Offrein, Richard Pitwon, D Milward, Roger Dangel, Jasper Graham-Jones |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Materials science
Multi-mode optical fiber Silicon photonics business.industry Optical cross-connect Optical interconnect 02 engineering and technology Optical performance monitoring 01 natural sciences Waveguide (optics) Optical switch Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics 010309 optics 020210 optoelectronics & photonics 0103 physical sciences Computer data storage 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Optoelectronics business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Lightwave Technology |
| ISSN: | 1558-2213 0733-8724 |
| Popis: | The protocol data rate governing data storage devices will increase to over 12 Gb/s by 2013 thereby imposing unmanageable cost and performance burdens on future digital data storage systems. The resulting performance bottleneck can be substantially reduced by conveying high-speed data optically instead of electronically. A novel active pluggable 82.5 Gb/s aggregate bit rate optical connector technology, the design and fabrication of a compact electro-optical printed circuit board to meet exacting specifications, and a method for low cost, high precision, passive optical assembly are presented. A demonstration platform was constructed to assess the viability of embedded electro-optical midplane technology in such systems including the first ever demonstration of a pluggable active optical waveguide printed circuit board connector. High-speed optical data transfer at 10.3125 Gb/s was demonstrated through a complex polymer waveguide interconnect layer embedded into a 262 mm × 240 mm × 4.3 mm electro-optical midplane. Bit error rates of less than 10-12 and optical losses as low as 6 dB were demonstrated through nine multimode polymer wave guides with an aggregate data bandwidth of 92.8125 Gb/s. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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