A Network/Bus Transceiver with Multi-Channel Fiber Optic Interconnects

Space Photonics, Inc.
(Original SBIR awarded to Optivision, Inc.)

Fayetteville, AR

• Parallel Fiber Optic Transmitter (PFOTX) with up to 12-laser/fiber channels.
  
• Parallel Fiber Optic Receiver (PFORX) with up to 12-photodiode/fiber channels.

• Radiation tolerant 1 Gbps point- to-point links using 8-bit-channels at 125 Mbps per channel.
• Individual PFOTX channels to 1 Gbps per channel.
• High density fiber ribbon and packaging interfaces.
• Laser and photodiode array devices capable of 2 Gbps per channel providing potential links as high as 24 Gbps aggregate bandwidth.

• A Phase III contract with NASA and DOD was awarded for the NASA EO-1 New Millenium Program.
• When Space Photonics was spun off as independently owned R&D company, it acquired rights to specified intellectual property, including PFO technology, by agreement between NASA and former parent.
• FireRing™, successor technology developed in 1998 Phase II, has product releases scheduled for mid-2003.

• Government space. systems
• Goddard is exploring various ways to use this technology.

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