Waveguide strategies for optical interconnect on CMOS

Author

Clapp, T.V. ; Cahill, L.W. ; Crossland, W.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

10-14 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

728

Abstract

Optical waveguides offer a viable solution to the imminent global interconnect problem in CMOS integrated circuits. Great care needs to be taken in choosing the design space and the design primitives to be adopted. It is shown that the extremes of high and low refractive index contrasts are far from optimum and that visible wavelengths offer advantages. Design primitives that can achieve acceptable performance, cost and reliability targets, are proposed.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; integrated optoelectronics; optical design techniques; optical interconnections; optical waveguides; refractive index; CMOS integrated circuits; acceptable performance; cost; design primitives; design space; global interconnect problem; high refractive index contrasts; low refractive index contrasts; optical interconnect; optical waveguides; reliability; visible wavelengths; CMOS integrated circuits; Costs; Integrated circuit interconnections; Integrated optics; Optical interconnections; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Ultraviolet sources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159513

Filename

1159513