• DocumentCode
    3431280
  • Title

    Power and size comparison of optical and electronic signal processing technologies

  • Author

    Raskutti, Garvesh ; Hinton, Kerry ; Tucker, Rodney S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    24-27 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report a comparison of power consumption and size in devices for optical and electronic signal processing. This comparison reveals that optical technologies are several orders of magnitude larger in size and/or consume several orders of magnitude more power than CMOS devices.
  • Keywords
    optical information processing; power consumption; signal processing; CMOS; electronic signal processing; optical signal processing; power consumption; CMOS technology; Energy consumption; Fiber nonlinear optics; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Internet, 2007 and the 2007 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. COIN-ACOFT 2007. Joint International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-9775657-3-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-9775657-3-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/COINACOFT.2007.4519122
  • Filename
    4519122