Taking Optics to the Chip: From Board-mounted Optical Assemblies to Chip-level Optical Interconnects
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Taking Optics to the Chip: From Board-mounted Optical Assemblies to Chip-level Optical Interconnects
- Author:
Katharine Schmidtke, Frank Flens, Daniel Mahgarefteh
Board-mounted optical assemblies (BOAs) enable significant bandwidth density increase relative to pluggable optics at the card edge. We discuss the challenges for the next step in this evolution as optics moves towards the chip.