An optical centralized shared-bus architecture demonstrator for microprocessor-to-memory interconnects

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 512-517

  Han, Xuliang ^a   Kim, Gicherl ^a   Lipovski, G Jack ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a  

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

Author keywords

Optical backplane bus; Optical interconnect; Optoelectronic interface; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS;

MICROPROCESSOR-TO-MEMORY INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL BACKPLANE BUS; OPTICAL CENTRALIZED SHARED BUS ARCHITECTURE DEMONSTRATOR; OPTOELECTRONIC INTERFACE MODULES; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0242577381     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.813311     Document Type: Article

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