Title :
Optoelectronic memory applications for VCSEL-based smart pixels
Author :
Sawchuk, Alexander A.
Author_Institution :
Signal & Image Process. Inst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
I discuss applications of optoelectronic VLSI devices for spatially parallel high-performance photonic interconnects, network interfaces and parallel cellular computing. I present detailed applications to error-correction and input/output formatting in optical page-oriented memory systems and present some particular implementations using VCSEL, LED, and modulator-based smart pixel technologies. I review some performance characteristics and requirements for various optoelectronic memory architectures and the mapping of their processing and interconnection requirements onto optoelectronic smart pixels. I also consider system integration and packaging with diffractive optical elements (DOEs), micro-optics, and lenslets
Keywords :
VLSI; integrated optoelectronics; network interfaces; optical computing; optical interconnections; optical storage; parallel processing; smart pixels; surface emitting lasers; LED; VCSEL; diffractive optical element; error correction; input/output formatting; lenslet; micro-optics; modulator; network interface; optical page-oriented memory; optoelectronic VLSI device; optoelectronic memory; packaging; parallel cellular computing; parallel photonic interconnect; smart pixels; system integration; Cellular networks; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Network interfaces; Optical computing; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Smart pixels; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3895-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1997.645316
