Computer-aided design of free-space optoelectronic interconnection (FSOI) systems

Abstract

New research in optoelectronic devices, which have made it practical to use optoelectronics in computing and communications systems, as well as the need.for these systems to support higher informatr'on capacities has brought about a growing need for dtaign and analysis tools for optoelectronic systems. While there are many research groups developing new and exciting optoelectronic devices, the integration of these devices into practical systems has been slow to follow. The reason for this lag is that researchers who design systems need to be able to evaluate how these new devices can be used to make components, and then how these components can be used to build systems. By having tools for effectively evaluating new designs based on new deviccs, system designers will be able to evaluate possible derigns, and give feedback to materials and devices researchers for improved components.

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“…Work exists on free-space optical CAD [29,30]. CAD tools are essential to allow rapid evaluation of new system designs and designs using new devices.…”

“…CAD tools are essential to allow rapid evaluation of new system designs and designs using new devices. Various optical devices are included ( Table 2 in [29]) including: lenses, polarizing beam splitters, spot array generators, optical isolators, beam collimators, and lasers. The concept and premise is certainly nice.…”

“…It is important for optics to have this with a turnaround time of several weeks; this can aid general use of various proposed optical designs and lead to more prototype systems. Fourier optics and diffraction models are not presented in [29]. Work exists on free-space optical CAD [29,30].…”

Intelligent Simulation for Computer Aided Design of Optical Networks

“…Another academic research tool, OPALS (Optoelectronic, Photonic, and Advanced Laser Simulator) comes from the University of Melbourne, Australia [5]. In the United States, optical CAD research is also being carried out at George Washington University, Georgia Tech, the University of Colorado at Boulder, UC San Diego, and the University of Pittsburgh [6] using ad-hoc simulation tools as needed. The above research concentrates mainly on fiber-optics simulation and free-space optoelectronic design.…”

Hardware description language for optical processing (hadlop): a simulation environment for parallel optoelectronic architectures

“…The necessity of CAD tools and models that explicitly consider optics has already been realized by other research groups. 6,7 Levitan et al 8 described the physical behavior of such devices. The system OPTI-CAD 9 models digital optical structures on a more abstract level with data-flow graphs.…”