Ultra-thin silicon-on-sapphire multi-channel optical interconnects

Author

Liu, J.J. ; Kalayjian, Z. ; Chang, W. ; Simonis, G.J. ; Apsel, A. ; Andreou, A.

Author_Institution

AMSRL-SE-EM, US Army Res. Lab., Adelphi, MD, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

162

Abstract

Summary from only given. We designed and built a completely functional optical interconnects using silicon on sapphire (SOS) driver and receiver technology. Operation of high bandwidth and low-power consumption was demonstrated from this system. The second generation of 8 X 8 SOS driver and receiver are currently under testing and fabrication. Multi-gigabits bandwidth operation is expected from such a parallel array interconnects.

Keywords

driver circuits; integrated circuit technology; integrated circuit testing; optical interconnections; optical receivers; optical transmitters; parallel architectures; semiconductor laser arrays; silicon; silicon-on-insulator; Si-Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/; driver technology; fabrication; functional optical interconnects; high bandwidth; low-power consumption; multi-gigabits bandwidth operation; parallel array interconnects; receiver technology; second generation; testing; ultra-thin silicon-on-sapphire multi-channel optical interconnects; Driver circuits; High speed optical techniques; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical films; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033564

Filename

1033564