ECOC22: Keysight announces 224G BERT, paving way for 1.6 Tbps transceivers

Keysight Technologies announced a 224G Ethernet bit error rate test (BERT) solution to enable system-on-a-chip (SoC) makers to validate next generation electrical interface technology, accelerating 1.6 terabit per second (1.6T) transceiver design and pathfinding.“Keysight is pleased to collaborate with Synopsys, and other semiconductor makers, capture early market opportunities associated with the transition from 800 gigabit per second (800G) to...

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ECOC22: Avicena demos microLED-array for chip-to-chip at 14G per lane

Avicena is demonstrating its LightBundle multi-Tbps chip-to-chip interconnect technology at this week's ECOC22 exhibition in Basel, Switzerland.The company says the parallel nature of its LightBundle is well-matched to parallel chiplet interfaces like UCIe, OpenHBI, and BoW, and can also be used to extend the reach of existing compute interconnects like PCIe/CXL, and HBM/DDR/GDDR memory links, as well as various inter-processor interconnects like...

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ECOC22: Semtech adds VCSEL driver for 400G and 800G

Semtech announced a new addition to its FiberEdge platform of PAM4 chipsets - the GN1848 is a 56GBd quad low power, low cost, low noise and industry leading linear VCSEL driver with programmable bias and modulation currents, enabling interoperability with multiple VCSELs. The FiberEdge GN1848 is designed for 400GBASE-SR4/VR4 and 800GBASE-SR8/VR8 PAM4 multimode optical transceivers and active optical cables (AOC). The FiberEdge GN1848 is sampling...

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ECOC22: Semtech unveils 25G quad CDR transmitter with DML driver

Semtech has begun sampling its new ClearEdge CDR Transmitter solution for 4x25G data center and wireless long-reach (LR) optical links. The GN2105S is a quad channel 25G NRZ CDRs with integrated high-performance DC-coupled Direct Modulated Laser (DML) drivers offering superior transmitter (Tx) performance with various low cost and low bandwidth laser with the lowest possible power.The ClearEdge GN2105S can be paired with the GN2110S receiver...

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ECOC22: Jabil intros CFP2 DCO transceivers based on Nokia

Jabil Photonics announced general availability and customer testing of its CFP2 DCO ECO Coherent Transceiver. This latest module is based on Nokia’s CSTAR200+ silicon photonics optical engine. Jabil Photonics offers the coherent technologies and solutions required for a wide range of applications, including 5G, metro networking and data-center interconnects. Moreover, the second-generation 100G/200G modules comply with the most recent communications...

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ECOC22: Source Photonics hits 2.5 million shipments for EML chips

Source Photonics has surpassed shipment of more than 2.5 million pieces of 28G and 53G high speed EML laser chips for data centers and optical transmission applications. In addition to high end EML chips, Source Photonics exceeds the shipments of over 100 million pieces of 2.5G, 10G and 25G FP/DFB, and 10G EML chips for PON access and wireless fronthaul markets.Source Photonics began production shipments of 53G EMLs with 100G single lambda PAM4 based...

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ECOC22: AIO Core's Silicon Photonics micro transceivers

 What's next at ECOC22 for AIO Core?The company has developed a wafer-level process for packaging micro transceivers with multimode chips at 25G.Learn more about the Consortium for Onboard Optics and why your company should join: https://www.onboardoptics....

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ECOC22: Update on the Multi-Mode Waveguide Working Group

What's next at ECOC22?In 2021,  the Consortium for Onboard Optics established a Multi-Mode Waveguide Interconnect System (MWIS) Working Group to focus specifically on the replacement of copper traces with multi-mode waveguides and adding an extra thin interface for Electrical/Optical and Optical/Electrical conversion within close proximity to the electrical component.Here is an update for MWIS Working Group chair, Joshua Kim.https://youtu.b...

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ECOC22: Furukawa and the Ethernet roadmap to 800G

What's Next at #ECOC22 for Furukawa? Look ahead to the Ethernet roadmap to 800G and eventually 1.6T and we can think about different topologies and connectors for making it possible.Here is an overview from Flávio Marques, Product Line Manager.Learn more about the Consortium for Onboard Optics and why your company should join:https://www.onboardoptics....

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ECOC22: Vario-Optics on waveguides embedded on circuit boards

What's Next at #ECOC22 for Vario-Optics? How about electro-optical waveguides embedded in printed circuit boards?Here is an demo conducted at ECOC22 in Basel, Switzerland by Nikolaus Flöry, Business Development Manager, Vario-Optics AG.Here is another view of this concept on the Vario-Optics website: https://vario-optics.ch/on-board-optics-demoLearn more about the Consortium for Onboard Optics and why your company should join:https://www.on...

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