Radiation-hard Miniature Parallel Optical Links for Next Generation High-Energy Physics Experiments - Phase II Final Report
- Vega Wave Systems, Inc., West Chicago, IL (United States)
Statement of the problem or situation that is being addressed: Future particle physics experiments at the high-energy frontier such as the High Luminosity- Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), International Linear Collider (ILC) or Multi-TeV Muon Collider, will all require silicon detectors capable of reconstructing charged particle trajectories with high accuracy in the presence of extremely high luminosity (1035/cm2/sec in the case of the HL-LHC). These experiments will generate enormous volumes of data. Collecting, managing and analyzing this data is a major priority for the high-energy physics community. Radiation-hardened fiber optic transmitters are being developed to deliver this data from the high radiation environment near the silicon detectors. VCSEL-based transmitters are believed to be the best solution because of the higher radiation tolerance compared to edge-emitting lasers. The technical effectiveness of how this problem or situation is being addressed: To address this requirement, this project will develop a high-speed (480Gb/s), low-power, radiation-tolerant optical transmitter using vertical-cavity surface-emitting arrays for trigger and data extraction. This data rate of this optical link is a factor of four times greater than the data rates currently being developed for high-energy physics and represents a significant advancement on the current state-of-the-art. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits: The development of this optical link will have potential commercial benefits for high-speed backplane and data bus applications in high-speed or massively parallel computing. The market impact could be significant for both data centers and high-speed networks.
- Research Organization:
- Vega Wave Systems, Inc., West Chicago, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- Fermilab
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0011279
- OSTI ID:
- 1437661
- Type / Phase:
- SBIR (Phase II)
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-VegaWaveSystems-11279; C021
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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