5G Facilitate the Development of 100G Optical Transceivers

A few years later, 5G will begin to be formally commercial. Does it need to use the optical
transceiver? How about its conditions of demand compared with 4G? In fact, 4G have uses the
countless optical transceiver, 5G will be more. By the current 5G planning point of view, the rate
may reach 10-100 times the 4G network. At this rate, the base station must adopt the optical
transceiver to achieve the service function, so the demand of the 5G optical transceiver will far
exceed that of the 4G optical transceiver.

According to statistics, the core components of 4G base-stations and 4G transmission equipment

are 6G and 10G optical transceivers. Once 4G constructions not only led the advance in the
wireless field, but also promoted the development of ancillary industries such as antenna, radio
frequency and power supply, the industry is also a new growth driver.

In the optical transceiver, 100G optical transceiver is one of the high frequency words. Even in the
sub-industry closely related to the 5G theme investment, the 100G optical transceiver has
become a new landmark theme market. Therefore, the post will have a deep analysis on what is
100G optical transceiver.

A Brief Introduction on 100G Optical Transceiver

1. Firstly, we need to know that the 100G "G" refers to the optical signal transmission rate of
units, rather than the 5G "G" (Generation, 5th generation mobile communications).

2. Optical transceiver: Optical device is to achieve high-speed conversion between optical signals
and an optical device, the optical receiver, optical transmitter, laser, detector and other functional
modules.
3. According to the encapsulation type (CFP / XFP / SFP / QSFP, etc.), the transmission rate
(155Mbps ~ 200Gbps), optical link (CWDM / DWDM / PSM), mode / Hot swap), optical
transceiver has a wide range of categories. If considering the operating temperature range, the
number of self-diagnostic functions and performance classification elements, optical transceivers
has more categories.

4. The basic structure of an optical transceiver includes a laser (TOSA) + driving circuit, a detector
(ROSA) + receiving circuit, a multiplexer (MUX), a demultiplexer (DEMUX), an interface, an
auxiliary circuit and a housing.

5. Driven by technological upgrading and cost reduction, the optical transceiver continues to be
"high-speed, miniaturized and integrated." 100G optical transceivers using 25G laser chip
technology, according to the different form factor methods, 100G optical transceivers have three
categories, which are CFP / CFP2 / CFP4, CXP and QSFP28. QSFP28 is a new generation of 100G
optical transceiver form factor, and has now become the mainstream optical transceiver form
factor in 100G optical transceiver market.

6. 100G optical transceivers have different models and standards. Generally speaking, the
transmission rate of optical signals is much higher than that of low-rate 10G and 25G products.
Now they have become the star products in large-scale data centers and telecom markets. The
following table is the specific circumstances of some common 100G optical transceiver standard:

Standard Group Connector and Fiber Cabling Reach

100GBASE-SR1 IEEE 24f MPO, pinned parallel MMF, 10-fiber 100 meters on
0 Tx, 10-fiber Rx 850 nm OM3150 meters on
OM4
100GBASE-SR4 IEEE
12f MPO, pinned parallel MMF, 4-fiber Tx,
100 meters on OM4
4-fiber Rx 850 nm
100GBASE-LR4 IEEE
LC receptacles duplex (2) SMF, 1310 nm,
10 kilometers on SMF
4λx25G WDM
100GBASE-ER4 IEEE
12f MPO, pinned parallel MMF, 4-fiber Tx,
40 kilometers on SMF
4-fiber Rx 850 nm
100G PSM4 100G
12f MPO, pinned parallel SMF, 4-fiber Tx,
PSM4 500 meters on SMF
MSA 4-fiber Rx 1310 nm
100G CWDM4 CWDM4 LC receptacles duplex (2) SMF,
MSA 2 kilometers on SMF
1271–1331 nm, 4λx25G CWDM
100G SWDM4 SWDM
Alliance(pr LC, receptacles duplex (2) MMF, 850–950 TBD on OM3/4TBD
eproducti nm, 4λx25G SWDM on WBMMF
on)
100G CLR4 100G LC receptacles duplex (2) SMF, 2 kilometers on SMF
CLR4 1271–1331 nm, 4λx25G CWDM
Alliance

Conclusion:

The advent of the 5G era will bring new opportunities for the optical communications industry.
The entire industry such as optical fiber, optical transceivers and optical access network systems
will benefit from the 5G construction. The world's major optical transceiver manufacturers are
now taking this opportunity to launch new 100G optical transceivers to capture the 5G market.
Gigalight, as a veteran optical transceiver manufacturer with professional technology, advanced R
& D capability and stable manufacturing capability, not only has many popular 100G optical
transceiver products, like 100G QSFP28 CWDM4, 100G QSFP28 PSM4, CFP4 100G SR4, and etc.
but also will release more new 100G optical transceivers in the first quarter of this year. More
information about 100G optical transceivers, please visit the official website.