Optical interconnects to electronic chips
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...Abstract Integrated photonic devices are poised to play a key role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from optical interconnects [1] and sensors [2] to quantum computing [3]....
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...Silicon-based modulators still present challenges here, though, because silicon itself only has a relatively weak mechanism (a change in refractive index with changes in carrier density) for such modulators [31]....
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...It does have a relatively weak but usable change in refractive index with carrier density, whose physics was characterized in the late 1980s [31]....
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...We have discussed such devices elsewhere [7], and will not repeat the details here....
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...Considerations of power dissipation, bytes per FLOP, free-space optics, waveguide optics, and the resulting requirements on future optical and optoelectronic devices for interconnects are discussed in [7]....
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...For the densest future interconnects, or for direct “chip-to-network” connections for longer distances, wavelength division multiplexing may be required for waveguide systems [7]....
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...[7] for a discussion of these energies....
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...(Interestingly, these apparently also obey [7] the scaling of Eq....
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...The analysis of the limitations of wires on chips was expanded and clarified [10]....
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