On-Board Photonics expands bandwidth and reduces power consumption
As demand for data bandwidth grows, CPO and on-board optics enable a reduction of the power consumption per bit while achieving higher channel densities.
Both concepts are not new per se – in this overview article, featured in photonics spectra, we discuss the concepts of our embedded waveguide technology and how it can be interfaced with other components.
Full Feature Article “On-Board Optics“
vario-optics is a recent member of the multimode waveguide interconnect working group led by COBO (consortium for on-board optics).
Together with COBO we are working on developing novel solutions for increased data-rates and reduced power consumption using photonic technologies.
At ECOC 2022 in Basel we did a live-Demo of our fully-assembled, multimode Electro-Optical Circuit Board:
Specifications:
- High-Speed electrical design with 20 layers
- optical waveguide layer in the center containing low-loss multimode waveguides
- Total on-board throughput of 1.2 TBit/s over 48 optical channels.
