Title :
Design and Simulation of Optical Unguided Bus Interconnect
Author :
Bykhovsky, Dima ; Arnon, Shlomi
Author_Institution :
Electro-Opt. Eng. Unit, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Abstract :
To further reduce the size of computers and increase their speed, optical technology has to replace electrical technology for motherboard-level interconnects. This letter presents a new design for motherboard-level interconnects based on the unguided optical interconnection board concept. The design includes chips with optical transceivers that communicate using diffused light through the same shared optical medium. In this letter, we derive a model of bit-error probability (BER) and find the order of the Lambertian reflection that maximizes the BER.
Keywords :
error statistics; optical design techniques; optical interconnections; optical transceivers; probability; BER; Lambertian reflection; bit-error probability; chips; diffused light; motherboard-level interconnects; optical transceivers; optical unguided bus interconnect design; optical unguided bus interconnect simulation; shared optical medium; unguided optical interconnection board concept; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Optical reflection; Optical transmitters; Diffuse channel; optical board; short-range free space optics;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2012.2204240
