Experimental demonstration of free-space based 120 Gb/s reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects

Authors/Creators

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

Abstract

In this Letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a free-space based reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect architecture with 16-carrierless-amplitude-phase modulation. Experimental results show that up to 120 Gb/s (3 x 40 Gb?s) flexible interconnection can be achieved for up to 30 cm distance with a worst-case receiver sensitivity of -9.70 dBm.

RAS ID

19314

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2014

Faculty

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School

Electron Science Research Institute

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Comments

Wang K., Nirmalathas A., Lim C., Skafidas E., Alameh K. (2014). Experimental demonstration of free-space based 120 Gb/s reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects. Optics Letters, 39(19), 5717-5720. Available here