Demonstration of the centralized optical backplane architecture in a three-board microprocessor-to-memory interconnect system

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-131

  Han, Xuliang ^a   Kim, Gicherl ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical backplane; Optical interconnect; Optoelectronic interface

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

CENTRALIZED OPTICAL BACKPLANE (COB);

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0037343673     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-3992(02)00163-9     Document Type: Article

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