Silicon photonic microring links for high-bandwidth-density, low-power chip I/O

IEEE Micro

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-67

  Ophir, Noam ^a   Mineo, Christopher ^b   Mountain, David ^b   Bergman, Keren ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

data communications; emerging technologies; fiber optics; parallel I O

Indexed keywords

DATA-COMMUNICATION; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; OFF-CHIP COMMUNICATION; PARALLEL I/O; POTENTIAL BUILDING BLOCKS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SILICON PHOTONIC MICRORINGS; SILICON PHOTONICS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FIBER OPTICS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84876772456     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2013.1     Document Type: Article

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