2-D optical communications using WDM technologies for simultaneous and reconfigurable interconnections among many planes

Author

Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

15-18 Nov 1993

Firstpage

408

Lastpage

409

Abstract

Presents the basic concepts of the WDM 2-D interconnection in which, for simplicity only the first of M planes is transmitting and the rest are receiving. The transmitting plane is composed of an NXN pixel array with each transmitting pixel containing a miniature multiple-wavelength VCSEL laser diode array. Each laser in a pixel emits light at a different wavelength with all wavelengths being equally spaced apart. This WDM pixel is identically repeated for the entire NXN plane array

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; optical fibre communication; optical interconnections; reconfigurable architectures; semiconductor laser arrays; semiconductor lasers; smart pixels; surface emitting lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 2D optical communications; NXN pixel array; WDM 2D interconnection; WDM technologies; miniature multiple-wavelength VCSEL laser diode array; receiving plane; reconfigurable interconnections; transmitting pixel; transmitting plane; Communications technology; Detectors; High speed optical techniques; Hydrogen; Optical interconnections; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1263-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1993.379232

Filename

379232