Parallel Optical Interconnects Submodule Using Silicon Optical Bench

Author

Ning-Ning Feng ; Xiaochen Sun

Author_Institution

LaXense Inc., Walnut, CA, USA

Volume

33

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Feb.15, 15 2015

Firstpage

811

Lastpage

813

Abstract

A compact integrated optical submodule for the application of 40 G parallel short reach optical interconnects systems is demonstrated. The submodule utilizes a silicon optical bench to integrate all optical components and to realize passive fiber array alignment enabled by high-precision silicon processing technologies. The submodule is capable of transmitting and receiving data at 40 Gb/s rate up to a few hundred meters using multimode fibers. This production-ready platform can be scaled to 100 Gb/s and beyond.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical fibre communication; optical interconnections; optical transceivers; silicon; Si; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; compact integrated optical submodule; high-precision silicon processing; multimode fibers; parallel optical interconnects submodule; passive fiber array alignment; production-ready platform; receiving data; silicon optical bench; transmitting data; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber cables; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections; Silicon; Transceivers; Data communication; Optical fiber communication; data communication; optical device fabrication; optical fiber communication; optical interconnects; optical interconnects (OI); silicon photonics; transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2014.2361724

Filename

6937060