Parallel-WDM for multi-Tb/s optical interconnects

Author

Lemoff, Brian E. ; Ali, Mohammed E. ; Panotopoulos, George ; De Groot, Edwin ; Flower, Graham M. ; Rankin, Glenn H. ; Schmit, Andrew J. ; Djordjev, Kostadin D. ; Tan, Michael R T ; Tandon, Ashish ; Gong, William ; Tella, Richard P. ; Law, Benjamin ; Dolfi

Author_Institution

Agilent Technol. Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

22-28 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

359

Lastpage

360

Abstract

This article presents a promising approach for multi-Tb/s optical interconnects. This approach is contained in the MAUI project, which develops a parallel multiwavelength optical subassembly (PMOSA) that uses PWDM to gain the component-density advantages of two-dimensional parallel optics and the connector and cabling density advantages of CWDM. In the MAUI approach, a standard multimode 12-fiber ribbon is used with 4 wavelengths transmitted through each fiber, for a total of 48 optical channels.

Keywords

optical cables; optical interconnections; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; MAUI project; cabling density advantage; component-density advantages; connector advantage; multiTb/s optical interconnects; multimode 12-fiber ribbon; optical channels; parallel multiwavelength optical subassembly; parallel-WDM; standard 12-fiber ribbon; two-dimensional parallel optics; Bandwidth; Chip scale packaging; Connectors; Optical crosstalk; Optical devices; Optical fiber cables; Optical interconnections; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9217-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548027

Filename

1548027