C3PO

Colourless and Coolerless Components for Low Power Optical Networks

Project status

Ongoing and ends in 2013

CIP involvement

CIP will be one of the main technology providers to the project, delivering state of the art optical components in discrete and array form. The latter will make use of advanced hybrid integration capabilities. The focus will be in developing green photonics devices therefore the device design will aim at lowering power consumption and reducing the form factor. CIP will actively exploit and commercialise the optical technology developed in C3PO in next generation optical networks.

About C3PO

C3PO (Colourless and Coolerless Components for low Power Optical Networks) is an industry-driven project co-funded by the European Commission and aims to design and develop a new generation of energy-efficient photonic and electronic components and apply them to next-generation access and high-speed metro-core networks. The objectives of the project are:
Design and development of up to 100Gb/s photonic and electronic integrated circuits on the same platform
Design systems and networks using "reflective photonics" everywhere
Development of coolerless components relaxing rack- and room- operating temperature ranges
Development of Colourless components so that the C-3PO components can be plug-and-play to wavelength-division-multiplexed systems seamlessly
Development of unified design rules for both electronics and photonics for achieving lower power consumption
Development of energy-optimized optical switching modules
Investigate disruptive effects in the design of new optical networks using coolerless and colourless reflective C3PO components
Evaluate the technology developed, protect the knowledge and investigate potential commercialization routes

Web site: http://www.greenc3po.eu/

Partners

UCC (Ireland), Constelex (Greece), CIP (UK), IMEC (Belgium), Polatis (UK), ADVA (Germany)

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