Using LED-based parallelism for fast optical interconnects
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 12:18PM Avicena Tech has demonstrated what it claims is the world's smallest one-terabit optical transceiver. And the company will reveal more about how it is advancing its optical technology for volume production at the upcoming OFC event in San Diego in March.
Christoph Pfistner demonstrating the microLED-based 1Tbps interface at Supercomputing 23 in Denver, Colorado.
The interface technology uses compact light emitting diodes (LED). The interface uses an array of these microLEDs that emit light vertically into a bundle of multimode optical fibres.
Avicena demonstrated its 1 terabit-per-second (Tbps) interface at the recent Supercomputing 23 show in Colorado last November. Its interface used 304 LED-based optical channels, each carrying 3.3 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) of data for a total bandwidth of one terabit.
