On-chip wireless optical broadcast interconnection network

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 3569-3577

  Zhou, Hongyu ^a   Li, Zheng ^a   Shang, Li ^a   Mickelson, Alan ^a   Filipovic, Dejan S ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Multicore interconnection; on chip broadcast; optical antenna; silicon photonics; silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer

Indexed keywords

MULTI CORE; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI) WAFER;

BROADCASTING; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78649986123     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2091105     Document Type: Article

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