Optoelectronic sorter system

James Gourlay, Tsung Yi Yang, Julian A B Dines, Mark G. Forbes, Andrew J. Waddie, Andrew C. Walker, David G. Vass, Ian Underwood, Colin R. Stanley, Wilson Sibbett

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Abstract

The integration of 2-D optoelectronic interfaces with silicon chips can overcome many of the foreseen limitations of conventional interconnects. The solution is to provide free-space optical interconnects operating at the silicon on-chip clock-rate and with the numbers required to yield the necessary aggregate bandwidth. The application of this approach is studied by building an optoelectronic data sorting machine as a system demonstrator. The demonstrator system is based around two CMOS/InGaAs smart-pixel arrays, each with 1024 optical inputs and 1024 outputs, linked by a free-space parallel optical interconnect. It takes advantage of the ability of optics to provide large aggregate bandwidth and non-local interconnects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Information Theory
Pages51
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Event1998 International Symposium on Information Theory - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Duration: 14 Sept 199818 Sept 1998

Conference

Conference1998 International Symposium on Information Theory
Abbreviated titleCLEO/EUROPE'98
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow, Scotland
Period14/09/9818/09/98

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