A Surface Mounting Embedded Optical Transceiver with Bi-Directional Data Rate of Eight Channels × 10 Gbps

Abstract

The bi-directional data rate is investigated of an eight-channel 10-Gbps optical transceiver with a size of 15 mm 15 mm 6 mm and ball grid array package form that was designed and fabricated. A passive optical coupling method is designed based on a coupling lens array, which is transformed to substrate through a carrier. This electrical performance is characterized through a 3D full wave simulation and shows great advantages compared with traditional pluggable optical transceivers. Experimental eye diagram measurement in loop-back mode via a 2-m-long multimode fiber array shows an eye width of 51.984 ps at a bit-error rate order of 10 12 , which proves the transceiver's ability for 10.3125-Gbps data transmission.