256-channel bidirectional optical interconnect using VCSELs and photodiodes on CMOS

Author

Plant, David V. ; Venditti, Michael B. ; Laprise, Emmanuelle ; Faucher, Julien ; Razavi, K. ; Châteauneuf, Marc ; Kirk, Andrew G. ; Ahearn, J.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

19

Issue

8

fYear

2001

fDate

8/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1093

Lastpage

1103

Abstract

Two-dimensional parallel optical interconnects (2-D-POIs) are capable of providing large connectivity between elements in computing and switching systems. Using this technology we have demonstrated a bidirectional optical interconnect between two printed circuit boards containing optoelectronic (OE) very large scale integration (VLSI) circuits. The OE-VLSI circuits were constructed using vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) and photodiodes (PDs) flip-chip bump-bonded to a 0.35-μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) chip. The CMOS was comprised of 256 laser driver circuits, 256 receiver circuits, and the corresponding buffering and control circuits required to operate the large transceiver array. This is the first system, to our knowledge, to send bidirectional data optically between OE-VLSI chips that have both VCSELs and photodiodes cointegrated on the same substrate

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; driver circuits; flip-chip devices; integrated optoelectronics; optical arrays; optical interconnections; optical receivers; optical transmitters; photodiodes; printed circuits; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; transceivers; 0.35 mum; 2D parallel optical interconnects; CMOS IC; OE-VLSI chips; VCSELs; bidirectional data; bidirectional optical interconnect; buffering circuits; control circuits; flip-chip bump-bonded; large connectivity; large transceiver array; laser driver circuits; optical computing; optical switching systems; optoelectronic VLSI circuits; photodiodes; printed circuit boards; receiver circuits; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Circuits; Concurrent computing; Optical buffering; Optical computing; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Photodiodes; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.939788

Filename

939788