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
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