Free-space optics for high-speed reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects

Ke Wang; Ampalavanpillai Nirmalathas; Christina Lim; Efstratios Skafidas; Kamal Alameh

doi:10.1117/12.2022807

18 September 2013 Free-space optics for high-speed reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects

Ke Wang, Ampalavanpillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, Efstratios Skafidas, Kamal Alameh

Proceedings Volume 8834, Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration X; 88340I (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2022807
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

High-speed card-to-card optical interconnects are highly demanded in high-performance computing and data centers. Compared with other solutions, free-space optical interconnects have the capability of providing both reconfigurability and flexibility. In this paper we propose and experimentally demonstrate a free-space based reconfigurable optical interconnect architecture and it is capable of connecting cards located both inside the same rack as well as in different racks. Results show that 3×10 Gb/s data transmission is achieved with a worst-case receiver sensitivity better than -9.38 dBm.

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Ke Wang, Ampalavanpillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, Efstratios Skafidas, and Kamal Alameh "Free-space optics for high-speed reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects", Proc. SPIE 8834, Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration X, 88340I (18 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2022807

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