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Coherent Comb for Co-Packaged Optics

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Coherent Comb for Co-Packaged Optics The volume of data produced, managed and consumed continues to grow exponentially driven by emerging technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and blockchain. Demand for compute power to support these services is growing at 10X every 18 months and datacenter operators are struggling to keep up. Significant challenges have emerged in datacentre networks around bandwidth, signal integrity, power and face-plate density. The migration of the optical interconnect to the board (Co-Packaged Optics, CPO) and to the chip (Optical I/O, OIO) has been proposed as a potential solution, however only a few years into this new paradigm, two of the available dimensions for system scaling (fiber, and wavelength count) are already heavily utilised, posing scaling challenges in the near term. Todays CPO/OIO systems use intensity modulation/direct detection, but given these pressures, a transition to coherent is inevitable. COCOPOP will deliver the first coherent-capable external laser source (ELS) which be

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