Grating-coupler-based optical proximity coupling for scalable computing systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7944, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yao, Jin ^a   Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Li, Guoliang ^a   Shubin, Ivan ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Thacker, Hiren ^a   Mekis, Attila ^b   Pinguet, Thierry ^b   Sahni, Subal ^b   Raj, Kannan ^a   Cunningham, John E ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; Optical interconnects; Optical proximity coupling; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

GRATING COUPLERS; HIGH DENSITY; LOW LATENCY; LOW LOSS; MULTI-PROCESSORS; PROXIMITY COUPLINGS; SCALABLE COMPUTING; SILICON PHOTONICS; SOI CMOS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 79953674788     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.876443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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