Micro-optical and Optoelectronic Components for Optical Interconnection Applications

• Authors: M. Taghizadeh , A. Waddie
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The advances in the design and fabrication of microlaser arrays, photodetectors, and free-space optical interconnection elements have driven the creation of ever more "real world" demonstrator systems. In this paper we review the progress made to date on two separate demonstrator projects which have been assembled at Heriot-Watt University. We shall describe some of the enabling technologies used in the creation of these systems and outline the potential for scaling the architectures described up to sizes where the computational advantages of the optics-in-computing paradigm become highly attractive.

Keywords

EN

42.79.Ta

Discipline

• 42.79.Ta: Optical computers, logic elements, interconnects, switches; neural networks

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2002
• Volume: 101
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 175-187

Dates

published

2002-01

received

2001-06-28

Contributors

author

M. Taghizadeh

• Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom

author

A. Waddie

• Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.101.175