SPRINTER Project

SPRINTER is a research and development project funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) aiming to combine the best-of-breed optical components and methods from various powerful but complementary photonic integration platforms to develop low-cost, energy-efficient, and ultra-dynamic optical transceivers as well as optical switching solutions in order to cope with the diverse needs of the industrial networks and expedite their truly digital transformation. Within SPRINTER, low-cost and energy-efficient 200 Gb/s optical transceivers will be developed, in order to support the high-capacity connectivity. Additionally, SPRINTER will provide ultra-fast wavelength-tunable 10 Gb/s optical transceivers, enabling the development of an all-optical switching system, guaranteeing the reliability and time determinism required for time critical communication. Leveraging well-proven integration techniques that allow the fabrication of complex 3D photonic integrated circuits, the project will develop a disruptive low-loss and polarization-insensitive reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer, optimized for operation within space-division multiplexing network, assisting on the reduction of data congestion in communication systems, preventing the data loss and the delay in data delivery. _______________________________________________________________________________ SPRINTER funded by the European Commission (project no. 101070581)