The P-VixeLink/sup TM/ multichannel optical interconnect

Swirhun, S.E.; Dudek, M.; Neumann, R.; Calkins, Joseph L.; Brusenbach, P.; Brinkmann, D.; Northrop, T.; Moore, Anna; Paananen, D.; Scott, J.W.; White, Thomas P.

doi:10.1109/ectc.1996.517408

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“…National consortia, such as the OptoElectronic Technology Consortium (OETC) in the US [3][4][5], and several industries produced parallel fiber links. Some examples are: HP -POLO [6,7] and PONI [8], Motorola -OPTOBUS TM [9][10][11][12], IBMJitney [13][14] and Litebus TM [15], Vixel Corp -PVixeLink TM [16], Siemens -PAROLI TM [17], and linkdemonstrations and products from NEC [18], NTT [19,20], Hitachi [21], and others.…”

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Critical parameters for parallel interconnects using VCSEL arrays and fiber image guides

Mukherjee

Hadley²,

Geib³

et al. 2003

SPIE Proceedings

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Several thousand glass optical fibers fused together is routinely used as fiber image guides for medical and other image remoting applications. Fiber image guides also offer possibility for flexible optical interconnect links with potentially thousands of bi-directional parallel channels with data rates as high as 10 Gbps per channel, leading to more than Tera bits per second aggregate data transfer rates. A fair number of fiber image guide based link demonstrations using vertical cavity surface emitting lasers have been reported. However, little is known about designable parameters and optimization paradigms for applications to massively parallel optical interconnects. This paper discusses critical optical parameters that characterize a massively parallel link. Experimental characterizations were carried out to explore some of the fundamental interactions between single-mode 850 nm VCSELs and fiber image guides having different numerical apertures, 0.25, 0.55 and 1.00. Preliminary optical simulation results are given. Finally, potential directions for further experimental and analytical explorations, and for applicability into designable link systems are suggested.

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Critical parameters for parallel interconnects using VCSEL arrays and fiber image guides

Mukherjee

Hadley²,

Geib³

et al. 2003

SPIE Proceedings

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“…A recent solution to this bottleneck is the multifiber optic interconnection which is short-range (about 10 km or shorter) digital transmission using light. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Multifiber optic interconnects are attractive for high-throughput computer systems and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switching systems. Future applications include optical computers and visual displays.…”

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<title>High-speed interconnect using 1.3 um laser and fiber array</title>

Zhu¹,

Uchida²,

Tani

1997

SPIE Proceedings

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Multifiber optic interconnects are attractive for high-throughput computer systems and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switching systems. We have developed a high-performance 10-fiber interconnect with each fiber operating at a high speed of 1 Gb/s. The modules have a receptacle for mechanically transferred push-on (MTP) multifiber push-pull connector. The hermetic package is surface mount type and solder reflowable. The transmitter (Tx) is DC-coupled and the receiver (Rx) is AC-coupled with a cutoffof7 kHz. The electrical interface is differential current mode logic (CML) or emitter coupled logic (ECL), and the optical interface is a 12-fiber connector. Single-mode glass fibers (9.5 tm) or multimode glass graded-index fibers (62.5 m) were used.Tx contains a laser-driver IC, while Rx contains pre-amplifler and postamplifler, and comparator circuits. All the ICs are -5.2 Vbipolar GaAs, and Tx + Rx consumes 4 W. The power in a fiber is about 100 jW. The back-to-back skew is less than 80 ps. For a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) 223l pseudo-random bit stream, the error rate was less than 1012with all the channels transmitting different signals simultaneously and a 100-m small-skew (1.2 ps/m) fiber ribbon. The link worked up to an atmosphere temperature of 80 °C.

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