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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"optical interconnect"”.
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The evolution and adoption of optical interconnect cables
Optical technologies are now ubiquitous in data communication, telecommunication, and computing networks for transmission distances beyond a few meters. The use of optical to transmit voice communication has changed the nature of the industry and been driving photonic component innovation for the …
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Intrachip clock signal distribution via si-based optical interconnect
The Optical clocking has emerged as an innovative alternative approach to the electrical clocking, in order to overcome the difficulties associated with electrical interconnects in the synchronization of high-performance multi-GHz microprocessors. Because the on-chip optical interconnect must be …
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Variation aware design of data receiver circuits for one-chip optical interconnect
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Transmitter and receiver circuits for digital free-space optical interconnect: design and simulation
… connections at short distance, including dense optical interconnections directly to silicon integrated circuit chips. Optical interconnects to chips have been studied for a long time. This study started with the seminal paper by Goodman [1]. Since then, many authors have addressed the benefits …
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Characterizing opportunities for short reach optical interconnect adoption : a market survey and total cost of ownership model approach
… data have become critically important. Available interconnect technologies are broadly organized into two categories: electrical and optical. Although many digital systems use electrical interconnects, optical interconnects are becoming an attractive alternative as electrical connection has become …
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Development of a monolithic very large scale optoelectronic integrated circuit technology
Optical interconnects have been proposed for use in high-speed digital systems as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of electrical interconnects at length scales ranging from one millimeter to one hundred meters. To achieve this goal, an optoelectronic very large scale integration …
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Advanced materials, process, and designs for silicon photonic integration
The copper (Cu) interconnect has become the bottleneck for bandwidth scaling due to its increasing RC time constant with the decreasing gate line width. Currently, silicon based optical interconnect is widely pursued as the most promising technology to replace Cu in microprocessor chips. Silicon …
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Analysis of terabit/second-class inter-chip parallel optoelectronic transceiver
Electrical copper-based interconnect has been suffering from fundamental physical loss mechanism and its current infrastructure will not be able to meet the increasing demand for data rates due to reaching the limit of the transmission bandwidth-distance product. Optical interconnect has been known …
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Analysis of transistor laser intra-cavity photon-assisted tunneling for direct voltage modulation
High-speed optical interconnect made with semiconductor lasers is expected to play an important role in the upcoming age of big data. The technology of diode laser has been limited by its current modulation scheme in which the carrier recombination lifetime in the active region governs the ultimate …
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Development of high-speed P-i-N photodetector for 50Gb/s optical link in data centers
… of communication. The growing dependence on the optical interconnect in data centers results from its superiority over traditional electrical interconnects to transmit data at high speed over long distance. The P-i-N photodiode, having the advantage of high bandwidth and low noise level, plays a …
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Design and modeling of high speed P-i-N photodetector for 50 GB/S optical fiber links
High speed optical interconnect holds the key to the future Internet revolution; optical fibers have replaced traditional copper wires over long distances within data centers and high performance computing (HPC) due to their speed and reliability. With the increasing demand for high speed data …
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Phase optimised general error diffusion for diffractive optical component design
Algorithms for developing Diffractive Optical Elements (DOEs) are improved to achieve real time holograms capable of switching at rates of 25frames/second or greater. A Phase Optimised General Error Diffusion (POGED) algorithm optimised for quality and speed of generation of diffractive elements is …
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Migration from electronics to photonics in multicore processor
… in part by a hierarchy of physical limits on interconnect. Microprocessor performance is now limited by the poor delay and bandwidth performance of the on - chip global wiring layer. This thesis is envisioned as a critical showstopper of electronic industry in the near future. The physical …
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In-situ backplane inspection of fiber optic ferrules
… are envisioned to have hundreds and thousands of optical interconnects among components. An optical interconnect attains a bandwidth-distance product as high as 90 GHz.km, about 200 times higher than can be attained by a copper interconnect. But defects (such as dust or scratches) as small as 1 …
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Analysis of variation in on-chip waveguide distribution schemes and optical receiver circuits
Recently, optical interconnect has emerged as a possible alternative to electrical interconnect at chip-to-chip and on-chip length scales because of its potential to overcome power, delay, and bandwidth limitations of traditional electrical interconnect. This thesis examines the issues of variation …
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The integration of InP /InGaAsP ridge waveguide structures with dielectric waveguides on silicon
Chip-to-chip optical interconnect technology, which is being explored as a potential replacement for copper chip-to-chip interconnects at data transmission rates exceeding 10 Gb/s, is one of several technologies that could be enabled by the monolithic integration of III-V optoelectronic devices on …
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Energy Proportional Future Chip-to-chip Computing Interconnect Designs
… resource consumption and energy efficiency. Optical interconnects feature high IO capacity, distance-independent energy consumption, and low-delay connection. Optical linking fabric allows comprehensive customization of system architecture and resource allocation, which is not possible with …
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Monolithic electronic-photonic integration of the light-emitting transistor
… for bandwidth, energy efficient and reliable optical interconnects. The development of an optical communication solution is broadened from the initial optical interconnect from server rack-to-rack solution to intra-chip connection. The light-emitting transistor (LET) has good potential as an …
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Planar chalcogenide glass materials and devices
… include high-speed telecommunication, on-chip optical interconnect, imaging and photovoltaics. Another important area planar photonic technologies may penetrate into is biochemical sensing. High precision optical metrology tools can be applied to detect optical property changes associated with …
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