LEAF Light™
More data in the single fiber reduces the number of fibers and enables optical routing. Higher combined data transmission can be achieved with either higher modulation speeds or higher channel count. Of these two approaches, increasing the number of channels provides the highest power efficiency and data capacity per fiber.
LEAF Light™ is a dense multi-wavelength laser source fabricated with SCINTIL Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics (SHIP™) circuit technology. It generates the optical carriers for the scale-up compute network.
Each photonic integrated circuit (PIC) integrates two sets of 8 DFB laser array. The LEAF Light PIC is available with three output configurations offering either 8 or 16 wavelengths per port with 200 or 100 GHz channel spacing, respectively. Each laser can be independently and accurately controlled to maintain perfect channel spacing.
LEAF Light™ module
The LEAF Light™ laser module is a highly integrated system consisting of the LEAF Light photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and its dedicated control electronics.
The paddle card circuit board has been designed to be integrated into an External Laser Small Form Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) module as specified by the OIF forum. The ELSFP module is a faceplate pluggable form factor to address the remote laser source packaging requirements for co-packaged optical I/O.
Co-packaged optical I/O with external laser source
