BRATOL monthly meeting

Friday 13 Jun 2025, 09:00 → 10:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Andrea Boccardi (CERN)

Monthly meeting on the advancement of the BI-EP collaboration for the development of the BI rad-tol optical links

• Issues with the CTTx PCB
  • one capacitor for the PS touches the metal enclosure, grounded, causing a short
  • the PCB have been modified and a new production starting (~10k CHF)
  • the estimated delay might bring the CTRx production end beyond Antonio's contract, which for ESE is not a problem to cover if it is just for the mass production 
• The QSFP proposed by Antonio were not purchased, and therefore are not yet tested: this will be done for the next meeting (July 18th)
• the ROSA production quantity increase has been agreed with the company
  • from 3000 to 4000 for the production
  • from 50 to 100 for the prototypes
  • the contract might need to be reviewed, but to speed up the process a first order could be placed with the already approved quantities 

09:00 → 09:15 Review of minutes and actions

Review of minutes and actions as drafted from last meeting

Speaker: Andrea Boccardi (CERN)

09:15 → 09:30 News from EP

Update on the status from EP

Speakers: Antonio Cristiano, Francois Vasey (CERN), Jan Troska (CERN), Sophie Baron (CERN)

Bratol2025_6_13.pptx

09:30 → 09:45 News from BI

Update on the status from BI

Speakers: Andrea Boccardi (CERN), Christos Zamantzas (CERN), Manoel Barros Marin (CERN), Thibaut Lefevre (CERN)

09:45 → 10:00 Round table and conclusions