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Given the high data rates (>500 Mb/s) achievable in optical links usin
g current device technologies, low cost packaging of transmitters and
receivers plays a key role in rendering them viable for short-haul dat
a communication networks, The authors report a 12 channel, fully digit
al, hybrid receiver module for a synchronous parallel optical datalink
operating at 622 Mb/s/channel, The use of a multichip module (MCM) an
d the passive alignment of the MT-connectorized multimode ribbon fiber
to the photodetector array result in a simple low cost packaging solu
tion.