Optical Computing Architectures

摘要

Optical interconnects area are promising to fulfill the needs for future connection intensive digital systems. Concepts such as co-integrating silicon CMOS technology with optoelectronic devices have led led to several approaches for the design of the optical backplanes with terabit/ second or higher throughput.rnOptical waveguide bus arrays are attractive for their low cross-talk, small propagation loss, parallel operation with high packing density, which may be limited by channel cross-coupling, power dissipation and cost. Polymers waveguides, fibre arrays, VCSELs and detector arrays are considered for such buses. Procedures for testing of parallel links need to be developed, including their BER measurements.