PROJECT ID
Title: Blending Diverse Photonics and Electronics on Silicon for Integrated & Fully Functional Coherent Tb Ethernet
Funding: European Commission 7th Framework Programme Information & Communication Technologies‐Photonics Unit
Duration: 1st October 2010 ‐ 30th September 2013
GALACTICO TEAM
IHP GMBH ‐ INNOVATIONS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE
MICROELECTRONICS
CONSTELEX TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS Ltd
TELECOM ITALIA S PA
Design by Constelex Technology Enablers
TELECOM ITALIA S.P.A
U2T PHOTONICS UK LTD
U2T PHOTONICS AG
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION & COMPUTER SYSTEMS –
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS PORTUGAL SA
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
Information & Communication Technologies Research Project
European Commission co‐funded
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GALACTICO is a 3‐year EC‐funded research project launched inOctober 2010. The project is focusing on the development of photonicintegrated circuits for next generation coherent terabit optical Ethernet.
Passive waveguide optics
Active photonics
ElectronicsPerformance
Volume
GALACTICO targets:100 Gb/s PM‐QPSK transmitter and receiver256 Gb/s PM‐16QAM transmitter 512 Gb/s DWDM PM‐16QAM transmitter and receiverDemonstration of up to 1.28 Tb/s with multi‐carrier 32QAM
To address cost, performance and volume GALACTICO aims to utilize the
most established integration materials such as InP and GaAs for eachspecific opto‐electronic function and to combine them on a silicon‐on‐insulator integration platform.
Cost
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