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Experimental demonstration of high-speed free-space reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects |
Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 2850-2861 (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.002850
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Abstract
In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate a high-speed free-space reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect architecture employing MEMS-based steering mirror arrays for simple and efficient link selection. A printed-circuit-board (PCB) based interconnect module is developed and 3 × 10 Gb/s reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect with a bit-error-rate (BER) of ~10−6 for up to 30 cm is realized using a 250 μm pitch-size micro-lens array. In addition, due to the usage of MEMS steering-mirrors, larger lenses can be employed at the receiver side for collecting stronger optical signal power to increase the achievable interconnect range or to improve the BER performance. Experimental results show that with 1-mm diameter lenses the interconnect distance can exceed 80 cm.
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OCIS Codes
(060.4510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Optical communications
(200.4650) Optics in computing : Optical interconnects
(200.2605) Optics in computing : Free-space optical communication
ToC Category:
Access Networks and LAN
History
Original Manuscript: October 1, 2012
Revised Manuscript: November 2, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: November 8, 2012
Published: January 30, 2013
Citation
Ke Wang, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, Efstratios Skafidas, and Kamal Alameh, "Experimental demonstration of high-speed free-space reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects," Opt. Express 21, 2850-2861 (2013)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-21-3-2850
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