WDM/SDM fiber network design for the AMOEBA optoelectronic switch

We describe a WDM/SDM network where each bit of a word-parallel link is carried on a different wavelength. Each processor node has an "transceiver" which can transmit and receive optical data on single mode fiber. The fibers are linked through a central switch. The transceivers and switch use CMOS/SEED technology, where MQW modulators and detectors are flip chip bonded onto the surface of silicon CMOS circuits. The center of the network is AMOEBA, an asynchronous multiprocessor optoelectronic bit-sliced array switch using K identical switches with optical input and output to route K-bit words.