title: Experimental demonstration of 3×3 10 Gb/s reconfigurable free space optical card-to-card interconnects.
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.
authors: National ICT Australia—Victoria Research Laboratory (NICTA-VRL), Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. kwa@student.unimelb.edu.au
authors: Ke
authors: K
authors: Wang
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authors: Nirmalathas
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authors: Lim
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