500-Gbps Parallel-WDM Optical Interconnect

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 ; Dol,

Author_Institution

Agilent Technol. Labs., Palo Alto, CA

fYear

2005

fDate

May 31 2005-June 3 2005

Firstpage

1027

Lastpage

1031

Abstract

This paper describes a 500-Gbps parallel wavelength-division multiplexed (PWDM) optical interconnect where 48 channels of 10.42-Gbps data are transmitted over a parallel 12-fiber ribbon with 4 wavelengths per fiber. The transmitter and receiver are each chip-scale packages with a footprint of 5 mm times 8 mm and a combined power consumption of 3 W. This work is motivated by the continually increasing bandwidth needs of short-distance computer processor interconnects, which are demanding optical solutions that maximize bandwidth per unit area, power consumption, and cost

Keywords

chip scale packaging; integrated optoelectronics; optical fibre communication; optical interconnections; wavelength division multiplexing; 10.42 Gbit/s; 3 W; 500 Gbit/s; chip-scale packages; parallel 12-fiber ribbon; parallel-WDM optical interconnect; power consumption; short-distance computer processor interconnects; wavelength division multiplexing; Aggregates; Bandwidth; Chip scale packaging; Energy consumption; Optical arrays; Optical computing; Optical devices; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 2005. Proceedings. 55th

Conference_Location

Lake Buena Vista, FL

ISSN

0569-5503

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8907-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTC.2005.1441397

Filename

1441397