Progress in low-power switched optical interconnects

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 357-376

  Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a   Goossen, Keith W ^b   Jan, William ^c   Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Ho, Ron ^d   Li, Guoliang ^a   Rozier, Richard ^e   Liu, Frankie ^d   Patil, Dinesh ^d   Lexau, Jon ^d   Schwetman, Herb ^f   Feng, Dazeng ^g   Asghari, Mehdi ^g   Pinguet, Thierry ^h   Cunningham, John E ^a  

^a Sun Labs   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Bridge Semiconductor Corporation   (United States)

^d Sun Labs   (United States)

^e LLP   (United States)

^f ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^g KOTURA INC   (United States)

^h CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; optical interconnects; routers; silicon photonics; switching; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) very large scale integration (VLSI)

Indexed keywords

1.25 GB/S; BANDWIDTH-DISTANCE PRODUCTS; CMOS; ENERGY-PER-BIT; GIGABIT ETHERNET; LINE RATE; LOW POWER; NON-BLOCKING NETWORK; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; PER UNIT; ROADMAP; SILICON PHOTONICS; SYSTEM ENERGY; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

AGGLOMERATION; BANDWIDTH; ETHERNET; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASERS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 79954611106     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2081350     Document Type: Article

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