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March 7, 2022

  • For the first time in the world, 米兰ac体育 will exhibit an external light source (ELS) for Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) at OFC2022.
  • Sample shipment of pigtailed-QSFP ELS will be launched from April 2022.
  • Contributing to the realization of high-capacity data communication and a highly efficient energy society.

米兰ac体育 Co., Ltd. (Head Office: 2-6-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Keiichi Kobayashi) developed an ELS to be adopted to CPO required for the next generation networks switch servers in data centers for the first time in the world(note 1)and will exhibit the ELS 米兰ac体育, the largest international conference in the optical communication market.

Background

There has been a strong demand to expand the bandwidth for both hyperscale data centers that process big data and edge data centers that realize low latency for Beyond 5G. In accordance with this market trend, power saving has been a challenge for network switch servers. As of today, the bandwidth of switch ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) reaches 25.6 Tb/s. It is difficult 米兰ac体育 existing server architecture using pluggable optical transceivers to support a wider bandwidth of 51.2 Tb/s in the next generation. Hence, it has been expected to adopt CPO as a new server architecture.
CPO has a unique packaging structure where high-density silicon photonics transceivers are mounted together with a switch ASIC on the same substrate. In order to expand the bandwidth of switch ASIC, the power consumption is increased, resulting in higher heat Therefore, if a light source, which is a compound semiconductor laser, is integrated to a silicon photonics optical transceiver, it will be operated in a high temperature environment, which will deteriorate its characteristics and also affect to its reliability. An ELS can resolve this issue because it is connected to a front panel where there is a lower ambient temperature.

Details

100 mW per channel. The sample shipment of the QSFP ELS will be launched from April 2022. The ELS utilizes the high-power and wavelength-selected compound semiconductor laser technologies and optical packaging technologies that 米兰ac体育 has been building over the past 20 years.

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Fig. 3 Photograph of pigtailed-QSFP ELS

Target specifications

Parameter Specification
Number of channels 8
Operating case temperature 0 ºC to 55 ºC
Wavelength allocation Option 1: 1311nm (O-band) x 8
Option 2: 4-λ CWDM x 2
Output power 100mW/channel
Polarization Extinction Ration 20 dB (Slow axis)

(note 1)According to our research

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