European Defence Fund R&D Project

MILSATCOM
OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER

Miniaturized board-mountable Optical Transceiver for high data rate Military Satellite Communications

Mini-BOT

OBJECTIVE

FIRST EU HI-REL, RAD-HARD 100G VCSEL OTRx.

Mini-BOT is a 3-year EDF Research Action which aims to develop the first fully European hi-rel, rad-hard optical transceiver for intra-satellite optical interconnects in Aerospace, Defence & Space applications.

Mini-BOT OTRx targets >100 Gb/s data rate at power efficiencies as low as 5 mW/Gb/s within an ultra-compact form factor (<2 gram mass and < 350 mm^2 PCB area).

Mini-BOT aims to deliver opto-electronics, SiGe BiCMOS electronics and meta-surface optics elements and combine them into a hi-rel OTRx module which relies on a wafer-scale assembly process.

Mini-BOT

CORE TECHNOLOGIES

RAD-HARD SiGE BiCMOS

META-lENSES

LONG-WAVELENGTH O/E

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TEAM

LEO SPace PHOTONICS

LEO Space Photonics (project leader) is responsible for the OTRx assembly design as well as the design of the SiGe BiCMOS OTRx chipset.

NAPA

NAPA Technologies is responsible for the design and fabrication of meta-lenses through nano-imprint lithography.

CNRS/CHREA

CNRS/CHREA is responsible for the design of metalenses and their fabrication in e-beam lithography.

VIGO PHOTONICS

VIGO Photonics is responsible for the design of the O/E components and the manufacturing of the VCSEL device.

Lodz University of Technology

TUL is responsible for the design, modeling, simulation and characterization of the high-bandwidth VCSEL device.

THales AlENIA SPACE

Thales Alenia Space is responsible for the definition of the mission analysis, system-level requirements and device specification.

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