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European Collaboration to Develop Next-Generation Optical Transceivers

Program aims to develop innovative programmable photonic components

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Imec’s associated lab at Ghent University has joined the European Commission’s SPIRIT project on optical transceivers for next-generation flexible optical networks. The three-year research program aims to develop innovative programmable photonic components, all integrated on a Si photonic platform: low-power, multi-level modulators, flexible wavelength multiplexers and de-multiplexers, and high-speed coherent receivers will constitute the ingredients for enabling terabit capacities and software-...

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