Title : 
Experimental demonstration of high-speed reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects with broadcast capability
         
        
            Author : 
Ke Wang ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ; Lim, Chong-U ; Skafidas, E. ; Alameh, Kamal
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Victoria Res. Lab., Nat. ICT Australia, VIC, Australia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A free-space-based high-speed reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect architecture with broadcasting capability is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Results show that 10 Gb/s data can be broadcast to all channels with a worst-case receiver sensitivity better than -12.20 dBm.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; optical links; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; broadcast capability; high-speed reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect architecture; receiver sensitivity; Arrays; Broadcasting; Optical beams; Optical interconnections; Receivers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Free-space optics; broadcast function; reconfigurable optical interconnects;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Interconnects Conference, 2013 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Santa Fe, NM
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-5061-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-5062-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OIC.2013.6552937