Mar 17, 2014 · An optical backplane (or "backplane system") is a circuit board with group of optical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each signal connection of each connector is linked with optical interconnection. It is used as a backbone to connect several optical daughter boards together to make up a complete computer or server system.

Jan 20, 2025 · The optical backplane is used to solve the problems of a large number of fiber connections inside the ROADM, low provisioning efficiency, and difficult maintenance. OXC also supports optical-layer OAM to facilitate fault location and reduce the OAM cost.

Optical backplane connectors allow the connection of optical fibers through blind mating interfaces in similar fashion to electrical backplane connectors.

Jan 1, 2008 · According to current implementations, optical back planes are purely passive, as they do not incorporate optical signal generation, reception, or processing capability. Instead, they serve to distribute optical signals between numerous boards within a rack. Thus both platforms require proper connectorization.

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We describe and analyze a novel approach to implementing an Optical Backplane Interconnect Technology (OBIT) that is capable of optically connecting any row of a 32x32 backplane array to any row of a second 32x32 array. Each backplane array is formed monolithically on a wafer.

In this paper, a high-speed, large-capacity and compact optical backplane architecture for high-performance computers (HPC) is proposed and designed. The MT couplers is designed without additional mirror to divert the light from vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array by 90°.

A passive optical backplane comprising a printed circuit board (PCB) with integrated optical waveguides and standardized pluggable optical coupling interfaces to the line cards is proposed for future data communication systems.

This paper presents the first optical backplane demonstrator based on the use of PCB-integrated polymer multimode waveguides and a regenerative shared bus architecture. The backplane demonstrator is formed with commercially-available low-cost electronic and photonic components onto conventional FR4 substrates and comprises two opto-electronic ...

Increases volumetric density of 3U and 6U high-speed switch and payload VPX boards by integrating optical transceiver into plug-in connector. Intermateability with VITA 66.5-defined backplane connectors enables multiple sources and drives faster design cycles.