Comparison of the signal latency in optical and electrical interconnections for interchip links

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 144-146

  Kyriakis Bitzaros, E D ^a   Haralabidis, N ^a   Moisiadis, Y ^a   Lagadas, M ^a   Georgakilas, A ^a   Halkias, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Integrated circuits; Optical interconnections; Opto electronics; Signal latency

Indexed keywords

END-TO-END SIMULATIONS; INTERCHIP LINKS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL LINKS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0035056653     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1334949     Document Type: Article

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