Modulation-enabled tapered remote coupler: All-optical communication on and off chip

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7607, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gu, Tian ^a   Nair, Rohit ^a   Haney, Michael W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global interconnects; Multiple quantum well (MQW) modulator; Optical interconnect; Optoelectronics

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; CHIP-SCALE; CMOS DEVICES; COMPUTING POWER; COUPLING STRUCTURES; CRITICAL DIMENSION; DIRECT COUPLING; ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTS; FABRICATION PROCESS; FREE SPACE; GLOBAL INTERCONNECTS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MODERN MICROPROCESSOR; MOORE'S LAW; MULTICORE CHIPS; MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL MODULATORS; MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS; OFF-CHIP; OFF-CHIP COMMUNICATION; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; OPTICAL MODULATORS; OPTICAL SOLUTIONS; OPTO-ELECTRONICS; OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; POWER BUDGETS; PRISMATIC STRUCTURES; REMOTE REGIONS; SILICON CMOS; SILICON DIE; TWO DOMAINS;

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; FABRICS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MODULATION; MULTICHIP MODULES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 77951778912     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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