Prototype IF14-1 for an Optical 12 input Receiver Card for the LHCb TELL1 Board

The Optical Receiver Card for the LHCb TELL1 Board receives optical serial data coming from the cavern by optical ribbon fibers and transforms it to parallel electrical data. It is equipped with a 12 fiber optical receiver and 12 deserializer chips. It will be used by the Silicon Tracker, Trigger Tracker, Outer Tracker, Veto, Muon and Calorimeter. Two optical receiver cards fit on one LHCb TELL1 allowing a total of 24 optical inputs. The LHCb Inner and Outer tracker will use the Optical Receiver Card together with the GOL chip on the detector side. The Vertex Locator will use Analog Receiver Cards, two of which use the same space and connectors as one Optical Receiver Card.