Optical interconnects to electronic chips

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 25, 2010, Pages

  Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

ELECTRONIC CHIPS; SILICON CHIP;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 77957668285     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000F59     Document Type: Article

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