High-speed low-power and board-mountable optical transceivers for scalable & energy efficient advanced on-board digital processors
Paper in proceeding, 2018
We present the development and verification testing of a high speed multimode, multicore transceiver technology for intra-satellite optical interconnects. We report the fabrication and functional testing of opto-parts including 25 Gb/s 850 nm VCSEL/PD as well as the verification testing of the VCSELs against radiation and lifetime performance. In addition we report the development and evaluation testing of a multi-core cable assembly that was fabricated and mated with MiniAVIM multi-core connectors to develop hi-rel multi-core optical patchcords for pigtailing the transceiver modules. The fiber optic, electronic and opto-parts were used to assemble the first ever fully packaged and pigtailed, six-core optical transceiver prototype module that operates at 25 Gb/s channel bit rate at an energy consumption of ∠4.5 mW/Gb/s.
VCSEL
Fiber optic cable
Photo-detector
Rad-hard digital circuits
Optical transceiver
Optical interconnects
Author
Leontios Stampoulidis
Gooch and Housego
Efstratios Kehayas
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
Mikko Karppinen
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
Antti Tanskanen
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
J. Ollila
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
Johan Gustavsson
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics
A. Larsson
Lars Gruner-Nielsen
OFSDenmark
Christian Larsen
OFSDenmark
M. Sotom
Thales Group
Anaelle Maho
Thales Group
Mickael Faugeron
Thales Group
N. Venet
Thales Group
M. Ko
IHP GmbH Institute for Innovative Microelectronics
P. Ostrovskyy
IHP GmbH Institute for Innovative Microelectronics
D. Kissinger
IHP GmbH Institute for Innovative Microelectronics
Rashid Safaisini
Philips Photonics GmbH
R. King
Philips Photonics GmbH
I. McKenzie
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC)
J. B. Gonzalez
ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD UK
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
0277786X (ISSN) 1996756X (eISSN)
Vol. 11180 111804C
International Conference on Space Optics, ICSO 2018
Chania, Greece,
Chania, Greece,
Subject Categories
Computer Engineering
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Vehicle Engineering
DOI
10.1117/12.2536075