Title :
VCSEL-based smart pixels for free-space optical interconnection
Author_Institution :
Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
High speed smart pixel arrays (SPAs) hold great promise as an enabling technology for board-to-board interconnections in digital systems. The SPAs are arrays of optoelectronic circuits for which each circuit possesses the property of signal processing and has an optical transmitter and receiver for I/O. This paper describes a VCSEL/Si smart pixel array technology developed at the University of Colorado, and reports on a free-space optical interconnect (FSOI) system that is based on these SPAs. This effort is unique in the processing complexity of the pixels, in the bi-directionality of the optical interconnects, and in the thermosonic bonding of the VCSEL and silicon chips
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical interconnections; semiconductor laser arrays; smart pixels; surface emitting lasers; Si; VCSEL; bi-directionality; board-to-board interconnection; digital system; free-space optical interconnection; high speed smart pixel array; optical receiver; optical transmitter; optoelectronic circuit; signal processing; silicon chip; smart pixels; thermosonic bonding; Array signal processing; Digital systems; Integrated circuit interconnections; Optical arrays; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Smart pixels; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
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.1997.645318
