Bogdan Sirbu received his degree in telecommunications engineering from the Politecnica University of Madrid in 2012. He is currently pursuing his PhD thesis plasmonics and photonics research at the Technical University of Berlin, while also working as a research scientist with the Photonics and Plasmonics Systems group at Fraunhofer IZM. In this role, he is active in research on optical interconnects technologies for data centre applications, optical printed circuit boards, 3D heterogeneous integration, and the packaging of optical systems.
Everywhere in the world, the bandwidth of Ethernet networks keeps growing. This extremely rapid growth is powered by the great progress made in many areas involved, such as video, AI, HPC, and 5G. The operators of data centres and research…
