Optoelectronic memory applications for VCSEL-based smart pixels

Author

Sawchuk, Alexander A.

Author_Institution

Signal & Image Process. Inst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

149

Abstract

I discuss applications of optoelectronic VLSI devices for spatially parallel high-performance photonic interconnects, network interfaces and parallel cellular computing. I present detailed applications to error-correction and input/output formatting in optical page-oriented memory systems and present some particular implementations using VCSEL, LED, and modulator-based smart pixel technologies. I review some performance characteristics and requirements for various optoelectronic memory architectures and the mapping of their processing and interconnection requirements onto optoelectronic smart pixels. I also consider system integration and packaging with diffractive optical elements (DOEs), micro-optics, and lenslets

Keywords

VLSI; integrated optoelectronics; network interfaces; optical computing; optical interconnections; optical storage; parallel processing; smart pixels; surface emitting lasers; LED; VCSEL; diffractive optical element; error correction; input/output formatting; lenslet; micro-optics; modulator; network interface; optical page-oriented memory; optoelectronic VLSI device; optoelectronic memory; packaging; parallel cellular computing; parallel photonic interconnect; smart pixels; system integration; Cellular networks; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Network interfaces; Optical computing; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Smart pixels; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.645316

Filename

645316