Optical interconnects to silicon

Author

Miller, David A B

Author_Institution

Edward L. Ginzton Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

6

Issue

6

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1312

Lastpage

1317

Abstract

This paper gives a brief historical summary of the development of the field of optical interconnects to silicon integrated circuits. It starts from roots in early optical switching phenomena, proceeds through novel semiconductor and quantum well optical and optoelectronic physics and devices, first proposals for optical interconnects, and optical computing and photonic switching demonstrators, to hybrid integrations of optoelectronic and silicon circuits that may solve basic scaling and other problems for interconnections in future information processing and switching machines.

Keywords

SEEDs; VLSI; electro-optical modulation; history; integrated optoelectronics; optical computing; optical interconnections; photonic switching systems; reviews; Si; VLSI; electroabsorption modulators; historical summary; hybrid integrations; information processing; optical computing; optical interconnects; optical switching phenomena; optoelectronic physics; photonic switching demonstrators; quantum well optical devices; scaling problems; semiconductor optoelectronic devices; silicon integrated circuits; symmetric SEED; Integrated optics; Optical computing; Optical devices; Optical interconnections; Photonic integrated circuits; Physics; Proposals; Quantum computing; Silicon; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2944.902184

Filename

902184