We have fabricated and measured detailed bit error rate experiments on a 12 channel optical interconnect transmitter operating at rates up to 1.25 Gb/s per channel, using InGaAsP/InP /spl lambda/=1.3 /spl mu/m lasers. The lasers are highly uniform, the channel crosstalk is less than 1 dB, and the mode selective losses are low (<1 dB). This transmitter has been demonstrated in an architecture which would allow the transmission of 120 channels of 100-Mb/s uncompressed video signals.< >

We have fabricated and measured detailed bit error rate experiments on a 12 channel parallel optical interconnect transmitter operating at 1 Gb/s per channel, using InGaAsP/InP (lambda) equalsQ 1.3 micrometers lasers. The lasers are highly uniform, the channel crosstalk is less than 1 dB, and the mode selective losses are low (< 1 dB). This transmitter has been demonstrated in an architecture which would allow the transmission of 120 channels of 100 Mb/s uncompressed video signals. We have also demonstrated a novel high speed high quantum efficiency CMOS compatible Si MSM detector which would be ideal for monolithically integrated receiver arrays.