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 $\sim {10}^{-6}$ and a receiver sensitivity below $-11.5\mathrm{dBm}$ are experimentally attained with a proof-of-concept $3\times 3$ $10\mathrm{Gb}/\mathrm{s}$ reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect demonstrator.

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

Ke Wang, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, Efstratios Skafidas, and Kamal Alameh
Opt. Lett. 39(19) 5717-5720 (2014)

Experimental demonstration of high-speed free-space reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects

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Opt. Express 21(13) 15395-15400 (2013)

Space-Time-Coded High-Speed Reconfigurable Card-to-Card Free-Space Optical Interconnects

Ke Wang, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim, Kamal Alameh, and Efstratios Skafidas
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 9(2) A189-A197 (2017)