GigOptix Announces Participation in PANTHER Research Project
The project focuses on multi-flow terabit transceivers for edge SDN switches and data centers.
GigOptix, Inc. has announced its participation in the PANTHER (Passive and Electro-optic Polymer Photonics and InP Electronic Integration for Multi-Flow Terabit Transceivers at Edge SDN Switches and Data-Center) research project, funded in part by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the European Commission (EC).
PANTHER aims to develop programmable transceivers with Terabit capacity for next generation optical networks. The project will combine electro-optic with passive polymers for ultrahigh speed modulation and enhanced on chip-functionality. It will also integrate the polymer platform with InP gain chips and InP photodiode arrays. For the driving electronics it will use InP-DHBT technology. Finally, PANTHER will use 3D integration techniques to package these components in system-in-package transceivers, capable of 64 Gbaud operations with formats up to DP-64-QAM and flexibility in handling multiple optical flows on-chip.