Optical interconnection for advanced processor systems: a review of the ESPRIT II OLIVES program

Parker, J.W.

doi:10.1109/50.108722

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“…They are being addressed by modelling of the effects of chip and package parasites, optical noise and distortion. Optical interconnections are now being introduced inside computer systems 14 and will proceed much deeper inside, eventually entering microelectronic circuits LSIs. In photoelectronic integrated systems the conversion of electrons into photons, and vice versa, can take place at any time and at any place, in order to take full advantage of a photonelectron collaborating system...…”

Section: The Major Cost: Packagingmentioning

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Chapter 7 Imperative Issues in Implementing Broadband Network Technology (BNT) on The Information Superskyway

1997

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

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Technology Issue 1: Hardly anybody is working on Shared Conventionsfor interconnected machines to work together. Dertouzos warns: Major players of the 1990s who keep extolling fiber optics, real-time video, virtual reality, multimedia, and electronic commerce will discover that none of these awesome stuff will be useful unless computers and software at diverse sites can "understand" one another.Supply Issue 1: Dertouzos' war of spiders is one in which 3C industry members each offer the customer a car to drive on the Highway so long as he(she) never drives another car or wheeled vehicle.Supply Issue 2: Dertouzos declares: "There is no true information infrastructure anywhere in the world today. "Everybody is busy putting up toll booths, but nobody is putting up the highway. Demand Issue 1: Europeans declare "Good roads create traffic." Video on demand is too small to justify the massive investment necessary to connect just the US homes to the broadband network. Europeans urge the Economic Community to remove IT barriers. Demand Issue 2: American and European experts concur that customer and business applications are the driver. This concurrent emphasis on applications confirms the USE-orientation: What do you USE the highspeed, high-capacity switched network for? which we raised as Issue 1 in Chapter 6.

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Section: The Major Cost: Packagingmentioning

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Chapter 7 Imperative Issues in Implementing Broadband Network Technology (BNT) on The Information Superskyway

1997

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

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“…To date there have been many reports on optical backplanes that use holograms [8][9][10] and deformable mirror devices 11 as optical beam deflectors. But these deflectors have drawbacks, such as wavelength-sensitive performance, other undesired beam deflections, nontunable deflections, and poor stability.…”

Section: Optical Backplane For a High-capacity Atm Switch With Good Smentioning

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Optical backplane with free-space optical interconnections using tunable beam deflectors and a mirror for bookshelf-assembled terabit per second class asynchronous transfer mode switch

1998

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We have designed an optical backplane with free-space optical interconnections using tunable beam deflector arrays and a mirror for terabit per second class bookshelf-assembled asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switches. Optical beam transmitter arrays and optical beam receiver arrays are placed on the edges of a printed circuit board. Optical beams are deflected individually by the tunable deflector arrays, emitted obliquely and downward, and reflected at the mirror placed on the backplane, passing through some printed circuit boards, and reach the targeted receivers on the edges of printed circuit board. As a preliminary experiment, we show that board-to-board free-space arbitrary optical interconnections are possible using a tunable beam deflector array and 1-mm-pitch 2ϫ2 optical beam array provided with a vertical cavity surface emitting laser diode, we also show that these optical interconnections are made very stable by attaching reinforcing frames to the printed circuit board. Furthermore, we show that more than 1000 channel interconnections per printed circuit board are possible using a 1-mm-pitch optical beam array. As the speed per channel may be more than 1 Gbit/s, the throughput of the interconnection per board reaches almost the terabit/s level. Using this optical interconnection system is used, ATM switches with a huge capacity of 1.0 to 10 Tbit/s will be possible. © 1998 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. [S0091-3286(98)

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“…Figure 15 illustrates a planar diffractive optical backplane for use with PCBs (e.g. [55,56,46,47,50,57]). These examples extend the application of planar diffractive optical elements from the use with planar mounted components discussed earlier to vertically mounted components.…”

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“…[46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,28]) have addressed optical interconnections between and on PCBs, addressing the difficulty of achieving very high speed electrical signal transfers at these packaging levels.…”

Section: Optical Clock Distribution Among Pcbsmentioning

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Optical Clock Distribution in Electronic Systems

Tewksbury¹,

Hornak²

1997

High Performance Clock Distribution Networks

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Techniques for distribution of optical signals, both free space and guided, within electronic systems has been extensively investigated over more than a decade. Particularly at the lower levels of packaging (intrachip and chip-to-chip), miniaturized optical elements including diffractive optics and micro-refractive optics have received considerable attention. In the case of optical distribution of data, there is the need for a source of optical power and a need for a means of modulating the optical beam to achieve data communications. As the number of optical data interconnections increases, the technical challenges of providing an efficient realization of the optical data interconnections also increases. Among the system signals which might be transmitted optically, clock distribution represents a substantially simplified problem from the perspective of the optical sources required. In particular, a single optical source, modulated to provide the clock signal, replaces the multitude of optical sources/modulators which would be needed for extensive optical data interconnections. Using this single optical clock source, the technical problem reduces largely to splitting of the optical clock beam into a multiplicity of optical clock beams and distribution of the individual clocks to the several portions of the system requiring synchronized clocks. The distribution problem allows exploitation of a wide variety of passive, miniaturized optical elements (with diffractive optics playing a substantial role). This article reviews many of the approaches which have been explored for optical clock distribution, ranging from optical clock distribution within lower levels of the system packaging hierarchy through optical clock distribution among separate boards of a complex system. Although optical clock distribution has not yet seen significant practical application, it is evident that the technical foundation for such clock distribution is well established. As clock rates increase to 1 GHz and higher, the practical advantages of optical clock distribution will also increase, limited primarily by the cost of the optical components used and the manufacturability of an overall electronic system in which optical clock distribution has been selectively inserted.

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Optical interconnection for advanced processor systems: a review of the ESPRIT II OLIVES program

Cited by 53 publications

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Chapter 7 Imperative Issues in Implementing Broadband Network Technology (BNT) on The Information Superskyway

Chapter 7 Imperative Issues in Implementing Broadband Network Technology (BNT) on The Information Superskyway

Optical backplane with free-space optical interconnections using tunable beam deflectors and a mirror for bookshelf-assembled terabit per second class asynchronous transfer mode switch

Optical Clock Distribution in Electronic Systems

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