Advanced optical interconnection technologies based on silicon photonics for future DCs

• Published in: 2016 21st OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) held jointly with 2016 International Conference on Photonics in Switching (PS) pp. 1 - 3
• Main Authors: Nakamura, Takahiro, Tsuchida, Junichi, Kurata, Kazuhiko
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEICE 01.07.2016
• Subjects: Adaptive optics; Integrated optics; optical I/O core; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Photonics; silicon photonics; Transceivers; wide-bandwidth LSI

We developed a chip-scale optical transceiver, "optical I/O core", which is 5× 5 mm 2 , has a maximum capacity of 300 Gbps, and consumes a low amount of power, 5 mW/Gbps. A 25-Gbps/ch error-free transmission using our optical I/O cores with a wide-bandwidth LSI was observed.