Experimental demonstration of free-space based 120 Gb/s reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnects

Opt Lett. 2014 Oct 1;39(19):5717-20. doi: 10.1364/OL.39.005717.

Abstract

In this Letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a free-space based reconfigurable card-to-card optical interconnect architecture with 16-carrierless-amplitude-phase modulation. Experimental results show that up to 120 Gb/s (3×40 Gb/s) flexible interconnection can be achieved for up to 30 cm distance with a worst-case receiver sensitivity of -9.70 dBm.