Free-space optical interconnect and processing demonstrators with arrays of light-emitting thyristors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3002, Issue , 1997, Pages 156-167

  Thienpont, Hugo ^a   Goulet, Alain ^a   Baukens, Valérie ^a   Koczyk, Pawel ^a   Buczynski, Ryszard ^a   Nieuborg, Nancy ^a   Kirk, Andrew G ^b   Heremans, Paul L ^c   Borghs, Gustaaf ^c   Kuijk, Maarten ^a   Vounckx, Roger A ^a   Veretennicoff, Irina P ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Demonstrator platforms; Digital parallel processing; Free space interconnects; Grin lenses; Micro optics; Optical thyristors; Opto electronic transceivers; Reconfigurable interconnects; Scalability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LENSES; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICS; SCALABILITY; SPACE PLATFORMS; THYRISTORS; TRANSCEIVERS;

DEMONSTRATOR PLATFORMS; DIGITAL PARALLEL PROCESSING; FREE SPACE INTERCONNECTS; GRIN LENSES; MICRO-OPTICS; OPTICAL THYRISTORS; OPTO-ELECTRONIC TRANSCEIVERS; RECONFIGURABLE INTERCONNECTS;

DIGITAL DEVICES;

EID: 0007902812     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.271038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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