"Macrochip" computer systems enabled by silicon photonic interconnects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7607, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Raj, Kannan ^a   Cunningham, John E ^a   Ho, Ron ^a   Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Schwetman, Herb ^a   Koka, Pranay ^a   McCracken, Michael ^a   Lexau, Jon ^a   Li, Guoliang ^a   Thacker, Hiren ^a   Shubin, Ivan ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Yao, Jin ^a   Asghari, Mehdi ^b   Pinguet, Thierry ^c   Mitchell, Jim ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^b KOTURA INC   (United States)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisection bandwidth; Macrochip; Optical interconnects; Optical proximity communication; Silicon photonics; WDM

Indexed keywords

BISECTION BANDWIDTH; COMPUTING SYSTEM; CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY-PER-BIT; POINT-TO-POINT NETWORK; PROXIMITY COMMUNICATION; ROADMAP; SILICON PHOTONICS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTONICS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 77951842870     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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