Experimental Report on the Design of Multi-Channel Parallel Optical Modules

Abstract—We report here on the design, fabrication and char-acterization of 48-channel parallel optical transceivers demon-strating terabit/sec data transfer rate. 5 Gb/s giving an aggregate data rate of 102 Gb/s is demonstrated, to the authors' knowledge, for the first time. The paper describes and demonstrates 13 16-mm cross-section 12-channel parallel-optic transmitter and receiver modules. In order to solve this contradiction, the industry has developed a parallel multi-channel optical module, that is, multiple laser chips are integrated into one optical module, and the overall transmission rate requirements are met by multi-channel parallel transmission. [pdf]