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PhoxTroT: Optical Interconnect Technologies Revolutionized Data Centers and HPC Systems The research project PhoxTroT, ” Photonics for High-Performance, Low-Cost & Low-Energy Data Centers, High Performance Computing Systems: Terabit/s Optical Interconnect Technologies for On-Board, Board-to-Board, Rack-to-Rack data links”, funded by the European Commission under 7th Framework Programme (FP7) – ‘ICT-2011.3.5 – Core and disruptive photonic technologies’, … Continue reading “PhoxTroT PRESS RELEASE”

“Tilted optical coupling arrangement”, Fraunhofer IZM, patent application number US 9.507.107, filing date 03/07/2013 “Semiconductor device with optical and electrical vias”, AMS AG, patent application number PCT/EP2014/071560, filing date 08/10/2014 “Multi-tier optical PCB”, Xyratex, patent application number US 9.739.941, filing date 14/01/2015 “Optical capacitor”, Xyratex, patent application number US 9.529.153, filing date 01/05/2015 “Stress relief for … Continue reading “LIST OF PATENTS”

5th International Symposium for Optical Interconnect in Data Centres Co-Located with 43rd European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2017) Date: Tuesday, 19th September 2017 Location: Meeting Room J2, ECOC Exhibition 2017 Svenska Mässan – Entrance number 2, Mässans gata 24, Gothenburg, Sweden More info on the venue here. The symposium is focused on high-performance, low-energy and … Continue reading “5th International Symposium for Optical Interconnect in Data Centres”

Now online: PhoxLab: Independent Platform for Photonics in Data Centers Independent neutral Platform for benchmarking and showcasing of Photonics Components & Solutions for different hierarchy levels,  architectures and  protocols in Data Centers provided by Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest independent, non-profit application-oriented research organization, based on the successful European flagship project PhoxTroT. Services to enable and support your Design Fabrication Packaging Test and characterisation … Continue reading “Launch of PhoxLab”

With some delay, you can now find some of the slides of our lecturers’ presentations online and also download them for further information.   ECOC 2016 Tolga Tekin ECOC 2016 Bert Offrein ECOC 2016 Charles Baudot ECOC 2016 Elad Mentovich ECOC 2016 Hideyuki Nasu ECOC 2016 Huiyun Liu ECOC 2016 Le Nguyen Binh ECOC 2016 … Continue reading “ECOC 2016: Lecturer slides”

After the SummerSchool in August 2016 the conference of ECOC took place 18th – 22nd September 2016. You can now get an impression of the event by the pictures we took:   The Optical Interconnect in Data Centers EU-Symposium took place on the 18th of September and you can read more about the programme here. Dr. Tolga Tekin, … Continue reading “ECOC 2016: Pictures”

Since it is only five more days until ECOC 2016 and also our PhoxTroT-symposium will take place, please find the speakers list for sunday, 18.09.2016, below:     Further information regarding ECOC can be found at http://conference.vde.com/ecoc-2016/Pages/ECOC2016.aspx and for more details on the symposium, please visit http://conference.vde.com/ecoc-2016/Programme/Pages/EU-Symposium.aspx . Please feel free to share our participation … Continue reading “ECOC 2016: Symposium speakers list”

With almost 60 participants, our Summer School from the 1st – 4th of August was a great success. The four days in St.Andrews offered the possibility to listen to exceptional lectures presenting the newest projects and technologies in the field of optical interconnects as well as getting to know lecturers and delegates during the breaks and … Continue reading “2nd PhoxTroT Summer School: Pictures”