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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Title: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Photonics for High-Performance, Low-Cost and Low-Energy Data Centers and High Performance Computing Systems: Terabit/s Optical Interconnect Technologies for On-Board, Board-to-Board and Rack-to-Rack data links (PhoxTrot)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Funding: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Seventh Framework Programme</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Start date: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">October 20</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">1</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">2</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">End date: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;"> September</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">20</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">1</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">6 </span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Web site: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;"><a href="http://www.phoxtrot.eu/">http://www.phoxtrot.eu/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Description:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">PhoxTroT is a large-scale research effort focusing on high-performance, low-energy and cost and small-size optical interconnects across the different hierarchy levels in data center and high-performance computing systems: on-board, board-to-board and rack-to-rack. PhoxTroT will tackle optical interconnects in a holistic way, synergizing the different fabrication platforms in order to deploy the optimal “mix&amp;match” technology and tailor this to each interconnect layer. PhoxTroT will follow a layered approach from near-term exploitable to more forward looking but of high expected gain activities.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">The objective of PhoxTroT is the deployment of:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">      </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Generic building block that can be used for a broad range of applications, extending performance beyond Tb/s and reducing energy by more than 50%.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">      </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">The whole “food-chain” of low-cost and low-energy interconnect technologies concluding to 3 fully functional prototype systems: an &gt;1Tb/s throughput optical PCB and &gt;50% reduced energy requirements, a high-end &gt;2Tb/s throughput optical backplane for board-to-board interconnection, and a 1.28Tb/s 16QAM Active Optical Cable that reduces power requirements by &gt;70%.</span></p>
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