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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Experimental demonstration of 3×3 10 Gb/s reconfigurable free space optical card-to-card interconnects
Ke Wang1, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Christina Lim
1National ICT Australia—Victoria Research Laboratory (NICTA-VRL), Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. kwa@student.unimelb.edu.au
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 ∼10(-6) and a receiver sensitivity below -11.5 dBm are experimentally attained with a proof-of-concept 3×3 10 Gb/s reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect demonstrator.

