Title :
Parallel-WDM for multi-Tb/s optical interconnects
Author :
Lemoff, Brian E. ; Ali, Mohammed E. ; Panotopoulos, George ; De Groot, Edwin ; Flower, Graham M. ; Rankin, Glenn H. ; Schmit, Andrew J. ; Djordjev, Kostadin D. ; Tan, Michael R T ; Tandon, Ashish ; Gong, William ; Tella, Richard P. ; Law, Benjamin ; Dolfi
Author_Institution :
Agilent Technol. Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
This article presents a promising approach for multi-Tb/s optical interconnects. This approach is contained in the MAUI project, which develops a parallel multiwavelength optical subassembly (PMOSA) that uses PWDM to gain the component-density advantages of two-dimensional parallel optics and the connector and cabling density advantages of CWDM. In the MAUI approach, a standard multimode 12-fiber ribbon is used with 4 wavelengths transmitted through each fiber, for a total of 48 optical channels.
Keywords :
optical cables; optical interconnections; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; MAUI project; cabling density advantage; component-density advantages; connector advantage; multiTb/s optical interconnects; multimode 12-fiber ribbon; optical channels; parallel multiwavelength optical subassembly; parallel-WDM; standard 12-fiber ribbon; two-dimensional parallel optics; Bandwidth; Chip scale packaging; Connectors; Optical crosstalk; Optical devices; Optical fiber cables; Optical interconnections; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548027
