The Versatile Link common project: feasibility report

The Versatile Link is a bi-directional digital optical data link operating at rates up to 4.8 Gbit/s and featuring radiation-resistant low-power and low-mass front-end components. The system is being developed in multimode or singlemode versions operating at 850 nm or 1310 nm wavelength respectively...

Mô tả đầy đủ

Chi tiết về thư mục
Những tác giả chính: Vasey, F, Hall, D, Huffman, T, Kwan, S, Prosser, A, Soos, C, Troska, J, Weidberg, T, Xiang, A, Ye, J
Định dạng: Conference item
Được phát hành: 2012
Miêu tả
Tóm tắt:The Versatile Link is a bi-directional digital optical data link operating at rates up to 4.8 Gbit/s and featuring radiation-resistant low-power and low-mass front-end components. The system is being developed in multimode or singlemode versions operating at 850 nm or 1310 nm wavelength respectively. It has serial data interfaces and is protocol-agnostic, but is targeted to operate in tandem with the GigaBit Transceiver (GBT) serializer/deserializer chip being designed at CERN. This paper gives an overview of the project status three and a half years after its launch. It describes the challenges encountered and highlights the solutions proposed at the system as well as the component level. It concludes with a positive feasibility assesment and an outlook for future project development directions. © 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.