High-Speed Electro-Optical Components for Integrated Transmitter and Receiver in Optical Communication

Presentation

HECTO is an FP6-IST project partly funded by the European Commission with 2.36 million euro out of a total project budget of 3.87 million euro. It was started in 2006-11-01. The focus of this project is on the development of photonic components, transmitters and receives, for high-performance and high-speed but cost-efficient communication systems.

The project has been completed with successful field trials of the developed components at 112 Gb/s!

• Poster
• Nokia Siemens Networks press release
• KTH press release

The main objectives of the project are summarized as follows:

• To develop transmitters and receivers suitable for optical systems based on serial 100GbE signals requiring about 110Gbit/s.
• To determine specifications for all interfaces of the photonic components taking into account emerging relevant standards, and to determine application areas for the components and their impact on the specifications.
• To test the transmitters and the receivers in laboratory tests and field trials.
• To disseminate the results of the project, e.g. through the involvement of end users in the field trials.
• To exploit the results of the project, including plans for commercial exploitation by the SME component vendors of the consortium.