Project description DEENESFRITPL Meeting tomorrow's data transmission needs sustainably Consumers demand increasingly fast and reliable access to ever-growing volumes of data, and service providers are racing to meet the challenge. 5G, or fifth-generation, cellular services are already being rolled out, cloud-based data applications are becoming the standard and the Internet of things (IoT) is taking form. Data centres and data centre interconnects will prefer optoelectronics with the lowest latencies and power consumptions and the largest capacities. The EU-funded TWILIGHT project plans to give them what they want and need with optical transceivers capable of 1.6 trillion bits of data per second. Aside from massive capacity, the technology promises significant energy savings translating to reduced operating costs and lower environmental footprint. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective IoT, 5G and cloud applications have created a huge growth of datacentre traffic fuelling the market of 400GbE and the ratification of 800GbE and 1.6T standards expected within 2013-2025. Datacentre operators must keep pace with the increasing speeds and to cope with the increasing power consumption required for airflow management and cooling. Moreover, they must address the massive interconnectivity between servers and switches dictated by 5G ultra-low latency applications. 100Gb/s per lane is the next step for the realization of 800GbE modules but this will be the end of pluggables and the start of co-packaged optics with ASICs paving the way to 1.6T and beyond. TWILIGHT aims to bring InP membranes and InP-HBT electronics at unprecedently close distances (<20um) to unleash the speed capabilities of its high performance components and to enable 112Gbaud per lane. Wafer-scale bonding together with high-accuracy assembly and co-packaging concepts, TWILIGHT’s optoelectronic engines will be capable of up to 1.6T capacity. Selective area growth will be exploited to develop C-band and O-band EMLs and UTC photodiodes in combination with echelle gratings on the same system-on-chip platform. Adaptation of the SAG layerstack will be used to develop polarization insensitive SOAs enabling complex functionalities on chip. TWILIGHT will leverage analog bandwidth interleaving for interfacing its transceivers with next generation 112G SERDES and will develop analog (de)multiplexers, >110GHz linear drivers and 100GHz TIAs. TWILIGHT will exploit the PI-SOAs to develop 4x4 and16x16 optical space switches exhibiting nanosecond latency and >50% smaller footprint. The O-band and C-band SiP transceiver demonstrators leverage up to 72% and 74% power consumption savings compared to established technologies and target the datacentre market (2-10km) and DCI (<40km), respectively, with estimated cost 0.89€/Gb/s. Exploitation of TWILIGHT’s technologies is aimed via its industrial partner MLNX. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5Gnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of thingsnatural sciencesphysical sciencesoptics Keywords Wafer bonding InP membranes InP HBT electronics photonics-electronics co-integration selective area growth optical space switch 1.6T optical transceiver Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Main Programme Topic(s) ICT-05-2019 - Application driven Photonics components Call for proposal H2020-ICT-2018-20 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-ICT-2019-2 Funding Scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action Coordinator EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON Net EU contribution € 798 750,00 Address PATISION 42 106 82 ATHINA Greece See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 798 750,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN Netherlands Net EU contribution € 1 505 065,00 Address GROENE LOPER 3 5612 AE Eindhoven See on map Region Zuid-Nederland Noord-Brabant Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 505 065,00 III-V LAB France Net EU contribution € 990 532,50 Address 1 AVENUE AUGUSTIN FRESNEL CAMPUS POLYTECHNIQUE 91767 Palaiseau Cedex See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Essonne Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 990 532,50 KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN Sweden Net EU contribution € 520 373,75 Address BRINELLVAGEN 8 100 44 Stockholm See on map Region Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 520 373,75 ARGOTECH AS Czechia Net EU contribution € 616 500,00 Address HOLUBOVA 978 547 01 Nachod See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Česko Severovýchod Královéhradecký kraj Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 616 500,00 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD - MLNX Israel Net EU contribution € 649 400,00 Address YOKNEAM ILIT INDUSTRIAL ZONE - HERMON BUILDING 20692 Yokneam See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 649 400,00
