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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2012
Miaobin Gao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Christine M. Krause, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Hui-chin Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hengju Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Miaobin Gao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Christine M. Krause, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Hui-Chin Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hengju Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide optical link handshake techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an optical module includes a laser driver corresponding with a channel of the optical module, a signal detector corresponding with the channel, and a link handshake state machine configured to control the laser driver to generate a connect pulse of a link handshake process to test an optical link between the channel and a corresponding channel of another optical module and monitor the signal detector to detect a connect pulse from the another optical module. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.