Experimental demonstration of 3×3 10 Gb/s reconfigurable free space optical card-to-card interconnects

Opt Lett. 2012 Jul 1;37(13):2553-5. doi: 10.1364/OL.37.002553.

Abstract

In this Letter, we propose and demonstrate the concept of a free space optics-based parallel high-speed reconfigurable card-to-card interconnect architecture employing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based steering mirror arrays in conjunction with VCSEL and photodiode arrays. A bit-error rate of ∼10(-6) and a receiver sensitivity below -11.5 dBm are experimentally attained with a proof-of-concept 3×3 10 Gb/s reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect demonstrator.