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Dr.
Jesse Wen, Principal Investigator,
Dr.
Jesse Wen, Business Official,
DOE
Grant No. DE-FG02-03ER83585
Amount:
$749,944
High speed networks will be required to deliver the
large data volumes associated with DOE science experiments.
Deployment scenarios for 10 Gb/s enterprise and access networks will
require optical interfaces capable of spanning distances from 100 m to 10 km. Presently
available 10 Gb/s optical front-ends are not generally applicable because they
are either lacking in capability or are too large, power hungry, and costly.
This project will develop a new optical front-end/transceiver based on
combining single-mode, vertical-cavity-surface-emitting-laser (VCSEL)
transmitter technology with a payload-agnostic electrical interface. This
optical front-end is expected to provide the optimum solution for any transport
protocol over the entire range from 100 m to 10 km.
In
Phase I, a laboratory bench-top prototype of the optical interface was
constructed. Robust transmission of
10 Gb/s signals through up to 10 km of standard optical fiber was demonstrated.
Phase II will produce and demonstrate realistic transceiver prototypes.
These prototypes will not only meet performance specifications well beyond the
current state-of-the-art, but also will successfully address issues of volume
manufacturability and long-term reliability.