Nanophotonics for Information Systems

Fainman, Yeshaiahu; Ikeda, Kazuhiro; Dawn, Debasis

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7380-1_2

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“…Optical interconnections may be realized by various technologies including fiber, conventional free‐space, silicon photonics , polymers , glasses, crystals, and metamaterials . These technologies support either waveguided (that is, light is guided through the medium, such as fiber) or free‐space (that is, light propagates in line‐of‐sight mode).…”

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“…Conventional free space makes use of bulk devices for large‐scale deployments such as light sources, lenses, and mirrors. Recently, nano‐optic devices that enable both guided and free‐space modes are under development . The signal‐traverse path in free‐space mode can be controlled using diffraction, reflection, and refraction methods .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Optical interconnects are used for various purposes: commonly to overcome the inherent disadvantages of electrical interconnects in current and future systems, that is, increased speed and bandwidth, higher link density, reduced power consumption, better heat‐management requirements, no electromagnetic interference, low propagation loss, broadband impedance matching, high carrier frequency, and long‐distance communications . In addition to these direct benefits, optical interconnects provide additional use capabilities.…”

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Optical Pipelined Multi-bus Interconnection Network Intrinsic Topologies

d’Auriol¹

2017

ETRI Journal

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Digital all-optical parallel computing is an important research direction and spans conventional devices and convergent nano-optics deployments. Optical busbased interconnects provide interesting aspects such as relative information communication speed-up or slowdown between optical signals. This aspect is harnessed in the newly proposed All-Optical Linear Array with a Reconfigurable Pipelined Bus System (OLARPBS) model. However, the physical realization of such communication interconnects needs to be considered. This paper considers spatial layouts of processing elements along with the optical bus light paths that are necessary to realize the corresponding interconnection requirements. A metric in terms of the degree of required physical constraint is developed to characterize the variety of possible solutions. Simple algorithms that determine spatial layouts are given. It is shown that certain communication interconnection structures have associated intrinsic topologies.

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confidence: 99%

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