milan米兰体育官网 CPO ELS Wins the Best Paper Award from ICSJ2022
- Contributing to the realization of next-generation network switch servers in milan米兰体育官网s -
- milan米兰体育官网 external laser source (ELS) for Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) wins the Best Paper Award from 11th IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan (ICSJ2022).
- 100 mW at a case temperature of 55℃ in uncooled condition for the first time in the world.
- Contributing to the realization of high-capacity data communication and a highly efficient energy society.
milan米兰体育官网 Co., Ltd. (Head Office: 2-2-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Keiichi Kobayashi) presents and exhibits the technologies of ELS to be adopted to CPO at 11th IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) CPMT Symposium Japan (ICSJ2022) which is only sponsored by IEEE EPS (Electronics Packaging Society) in Japan. ICSJ2022 is held at Kyoto University, Japan, on November 9th to 11th as a hybrid event of onsite and online meetings.
Background
There has been a strong demand to expand the bandwidths for both hyperscale milan米兰体育官网s that process big data and edge milan米兰体育官网s that realize low latency for Beyond 5G. In accordance with these market trends, power saving has been a challenge for network switch servers.
Hence, a new server architecture employing CPO has been expected. CPO has a unique packaging structure where high-density silicon photonics transceivers are mounted together with a switch ASIC on the same substrate. As the bandwidth of switch ASIC is expanded, the power consumption is increased, and then higher heat is generated. If a compound semiconductor laser is integrated in the optical transceiver, it will be operated in a high temperature environment, which will deteriorate its characteristics and also affect to its reliability.
Therefore, ELS is placed on the front panel, which is outside the housing with a low ambient temperature, and the laser beam is supplied to the optical transceiver via a multi-lane polarization-maintaining fiber cable. (Fig. 1)
In order to operate ELS with high optical output and low power consumption, we optimized the design of ELS to achieve a high optical coupling efficiency and suppress the temperature increase in an uncooled condition.
Details
milan米兰体育官网 presents and exhibits an 8-channel CWDM TOSA and a pigtailed-QSFP ELS employing the TOSA at ICSJ2022. We utilize the high-power and wavelength-selected compound semiconductor laser technologies and optical packaging technologies that we have been building over the past 20 years.
100mW can be obtained with an LD bias current of 350mA or higher. (Fig. 2)
The mechanical size of the TOSA is as small as 23.5 mm × 13.0 mm × 4.0 mm, which enables it to be built in a QSFP housing with other components. (Fig. 3)
In addition, the optimization of the heat dissipation structure enables to suppress the temperature difference between the housing of the pigtail-QSFP ELS and the case of the TOSA as low as 0.7℃. Therefore, the pigtailed-QSFP ELS can keep the same optical output power characteristics as well as the TOSA.
Key Characteristics
Parameter | Characteristics |
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Number of channels | 8 |
Operating case temperature | 0℃ to 55℃ |
Wavelength allocation | 4-λ CWDM × 2 |
Output power | 100mW/channel |
Polarization Extinction Ration | 20 dB (Slow axis) |
Relative Intensity Noise | <-150 dB/Hz |
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