Title :
Scalability of silicon photonic enabled optically connected memory
Author :
Shiraishi, Tomohiro ; Yang Liu ; Qi Li ; Xiaoliang Zhu ; Padmaraju, Kishore ; Ran Ding ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Hochberg, Michael ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We investigate the performance of a high-speed optical switch for optically connected memory and study free-carrier absorption losses as the switch scales. The bit-rate dependent optical power budget is also analyzed for optically connected memory.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical losses; optical storage; optical switches; silicon; bit-rate dependent optical power budget; free-carrier absorption losses; high-speed optical switch; silicon photonic enabled optically connected memory scalability; switch scales; High-speed optical techniques; Junctions; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical switches; PIN photodiodes; Silicon photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2467-7
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2014.6886102
