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 

www.ict‐galactico.eu

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 

www.ict‐galactico.eu