Experimental demonstration of 3×3 10  Gb/s reconfigurable free space optical card-to-card interconnects

Authors

Ke Wang
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas
Christina Lim
Efstratios Skafidas
Kamal Alameh, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

Electron Science Research Institute

RAS ID

15333

Comments

Wang, K., Nirmalathas, A., Lim, C., Skafidas, E., & Alameh, K. (2012). Experimental demonstration of 3×3 10  Gb/s reconfigurable free space optical card-to-card interconnects. Optics Letters, 37(13), 2553-2555. Available here

Abstract

In this Letter, we propose and demonstrate the concept of a free space optics-based parallel high-speed reconfigurable card-to-card interconnect architecture employing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based steering mirror arrays in conjunction with VCSEL and photodiode arrays. A bit-error rate of ∼10−6 and a receiver sensitivity below −11.5  dBm are experimentally attained with a proof-of-concept 3×310  Gb/s reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect demonstrator.

DOI

10.1364/OL.37.002553

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