• DocumentCode
    1792487
  • Title

    Scalability of silicon photonic enabled optically connected memory

  • Author

    Shiraishi, Tomohiro ; Yang Liu ; Qi Li ; Xiaoliang Zhu ; Padmaraju, Kishore ; Ran Ding ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Hochberg, Michael ; Bergman, Keren

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    4-7 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    106
  • Lastpage
    107
  • Abstract
    We investigate the performance of a high-speed optical switch for optically connected memory and study free-carrier absorption losses as the switch scales. The bit-rate dependent optical power budget is also analyzed for optically connected memory.
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical losses; optical storage; optical switches; silicon; bit-rate dependent optical power budget; free-carrier absorption losses; high-speed optical switch; silicon photonic enabled optically connected memory scalability; switch scales; High-speed optical techniques; Junctions; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical switches; PIN photodiodes; Silicon photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Interconnects Conference, 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2467-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OIC.2014.6886102
  • Filename
    6886102