Title :
A 40 Gb/s scalable optical polymer backplane using a regenerative shared bus architecture
Author :
Bamiedakis, N. ; Hashim, Aniqah ; Penty, Richard V. ; White, Ian H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract :
The first multi-channel optical backplane demonstrator using on-board multimode polymer waveguides and a scalable shared-bus regenerative architecture is reported. The system allows bus extension by cascading multiple polymeric bus modules, and enables error-free 4×10 Gb/s interconnection between any two card interfaces on the bus.
Keywords :
computer architecture; optical polymers; system buses; waveguides; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; multichannel optical backplane demonstrator; on-board multimode polymer waveguides; regenerative shared bus architecture; scalable optical polymer backplane;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1499
