The world’s first 100 mW milan米兰体育官网入口 x 16-channel blind mate ELS for co-packaged optics
- Achieved milan米兰体育官网入口 of 100 mW for all channels at a case temperature of 55 °C -
- Based on ELSFP IA published by OIF, developed milan米兰体育官网入口6-channel blind mate ELS (External Laser Source) for CPO (Co-Packaged Optics)
- Product will be exhibited at OFC 2024 scheduled to be held in March
- Plan to launch the sample delivery from April 2024 and start the commercialization in FY2025
milan米兰体育官网入口 Co., Ltd. (Head office: 2-6-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Hideya Moridaira) developed the world’s first 16-channel ELS employing a blind mate optical connector for the realization of next-generation network switch servers employing CPO for hyperscale data centers and edge data centers.
Background
With growths of cloud services, 5G and other new telecommunications services, as well as generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning, data traffic has been increasing at an annual rate of approximate 30 %. Hence, hyperscale milan米兰体育官网入口s and edge milan米兰体育官网入口s are faced with challenges of expanding of bandwidth and reducing of power consumption of network switch server equipment. To expand bandwidth and reduce power consumption, it has been expected to employ CPO as a new server architecture.
CPO ELS is required to have multiple channels with high optical output power and also ensure eye safety. In August 2023, OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum) published the ELSFP (External Laser Small Form Factor Pluggable) IA (Implementation Agreement) as the specification for a CPO ELS. This agreement adopts a structure integrates a blind mate optical connector at same facet of an electrical card edge, and since a blind mate optical connector are located inside a network switch equipment, laser beams are never outputted from an ELS to outside of network switch equipment. Therefore, this structure is preferable for eye safety. Therefore ELS should integrate a blind mate optical connector, a control circuitries implemented on a PCB, TOSAs, and an MT connector into a housing without any degradations of the characteristics. And maximum channel number of ELSFP is specified as many as 16.
Details
We developed 16-channel ELSFP module employing a blind mate connector and two 8-channel TOSAs, which densely integrates our high power DFB (Distributed Feedback) lasers and optical components (Fig. 1, 2). The 8-channel TOSA is as small as 22.5 mm(L) x 13.0 mm(W) x 3.3 mm(H), and in order to fit the polarization maintaining fibers inside the ELS housing without finer bend loss and degradation of polarization extinction ratio, the fiber length has been reduced. And the fabricated 16-channel ELS achieved fiber-coupled milan米兰体育官网入口 of 100 mW for all channels and polarization extinction ratio of<20 dB at a case temperature ranging from 25 °C to 55 °C.
We plan to launch sample delivery from April and the commercialization is planned to start in FY2025.
During OFC 2024 scheduled to be held on March 24-April 5, 2024 in San Diego, we will exhibit our CPO ELSs and TOSA for 4 days from March 26 (FITEL-milan米兰体育官网入口 EUROPE booth; Booth number 2041).
OFC 2024
Going forward, we will continue to contribute to the realization of large volume data communications and an energy efficient society through the provision of ELS required for the adoption of CPO.
Key characteristics
Parameter | Target |
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Number of channels | Maximum 16 |
Operating case temperature | 0 to 55 °C |
Wavelength allocation | Option1: 1311nm milan米兰体育官网入口6 Option2: 4-l CWDM x 4 |
milan米兰体育官网入口 | milan米兰体育官网入口/channel |
Polarization extinction ratio | 20 dB |
Power consumption | <13 W |
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Presenting an 8-channel CWDM TOSA for CPO ELS employing a blind mate optical connector at OFC2023
Mass production of a high output 100mW DFB laser diode chip
Presenting a record energy efficient ELS for milan米兰体育官网入口 at ECOC2023
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