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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University College London
FirstLight: Pluggable Optical Interconnect Technologies for Polymeric Electro-Optical Printed Circuit Boards in Data Centers
The first and most complex 10 Gb/s optically interconnected system and the first low cost, high precision, passively aligned 80 Gb/s optical connector enabling optical interconnect technology to compete and replace copper track PCBs in high end switching, storage and computing array systems. Led to EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Secondment, KTS and a new post at UK Company Xyratex. Filed Patents US 07936953; US 08007965 licensed to Samtec. Led to new standards to accelerate the introduction of this technology: IEC 62496-2-1, -2-2, -3, -4, -4-1, 62496-2-4, 62661-2-1, 61300-3-53, 62658, (Etsuji Sugita sugita@hakusan-mfg.co.jp, Shigeru Kobayashi skobayas@te.com, Ton Bolhaar T.Bolhaar@te.com, Rosemary McGlashon rmcglashon1@mmm.com).