High-density optical interconnects within large-scale systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4942, Issue , 2002, Pages 222-235

  Berger, Christoph ^a   Kossel, Marcel A ^a   Menolfi, Christian ^a   Morf, Thomas ^a   Toifl, Thomas ^a   Schmatz, Martin L ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Board integrated waveguides; Free space optical interconnects; High speed high density interconnects; VCSEL based intra system interconnects

Indexed keywords

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTERNET; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PACKET SWITCHING; SERVERS;

BOARD-INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0042229307     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.468494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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