SUNMA SFP+ Active Optical Cables are direct-attach fiber assemblies with SFP+ connectors. They are suitable for very short distances and offer a cost-effective way to connect within racks and across adjacent racks. SUNMA SFP+ Active Optical Cables’s length is up to 300 meters on OM3 MMF.
Features
Electrical interface compliant to SFF-8431
Hot Pluggable
850nm VCSEL transmitter, PIN photo-detector
receiver
Up to 300m on OM3 MMF
Operating case temperature: 0 to 70℃
All-metal housing for superior EMI performance
RoHS compliant (lead free)
Applications
10 Gigabit Ethernet
4G and 8G Fibre Channel Applications
1x InfiniBand QDR. DDR, SDR
High-performance computing clusters
Servers, switches, storage and host card adapters
SFP+ AOC Specifications
Parameter Description
Module Form Factor SFP+ (Supports SFF8431/SFF8432/SFF8472)
Protocols Supported InfiniBand, Ethernet, Fiber Channel
Channel Data Rate Rate 1 to 10.3125Gbps
BER <10-12
Operating Case Temperature 0 to + 70ºC
Storage Temperature -20 to + 85ºC
Supply Voltage 3.3V
Supply current 230mA per end typicalPage 2 of 3 July 4 / 2013
Rev. b
Management Interface Serial I
2C (Supports SFF8472)
Optical characteristics
The following optical characteristics are defined over the Recommended Operating Environment unless
otherwise specified.
Parameter Symbol Min. Typical Max Unit Notes
Transmitter
Center Wavelength λt 840 850 860 nm
RMS spectral width Pm - - Note 1 nm
Average Optical Power Pavg -6.5 - -1 dBm 2
Extinction Ratio ER 3.5 - - dB 3
Transmitter Dispersion Penalty TDP - - 3.9 dB
Relative Intensity Noise Rin - - -128 dB/Hz 12dB reflection
Optical Return Loss Tolerance - - 12 dB
Receiver
Center Wavelength λr 840 850 860 nm
Receiver Sensitivity Psens - - -11.1 dBm 4
Stressed Sensitivity in OMA - - -7.5 dBm 4
Los function Los -30 - -12 dBm
Overload Pin - - -1.0 dBm 4
Receiver Reflectance - - -12 dB
Note:
1. Trade-offs are available between spectral width, center wavelength and minimum OMA, as shown in table 6.
2. The optical power is launched into MMF
3. Measured with a PRBS 231
-1 test pattern @10.3125Gbps
4.Measured with a PRBS 231
-1 test pattern @10.3125Gbps,BER≤10-12