Title :
Power and size comparison of optical and electronic signal processing technologies
Author :
Raskutti, Garvesh ; Hinton, Kerry ; Tucker, Rodney S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
Abstract :
We report a comparison of power consumption and size in devices for optical and electronic signal processing. This comparison reveals that optical technologies are several orders of magnitude larger in size and/or consume several orders of magnitude more power than CMOS devices.
Keywords :
optical information processing; power consumption; signal processing; CMOS; electronic signal processing; optical signal processing; power consumption; CMOS technology; Energy consumption; Fiber nonlinear optics; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Internet, 2007 and the 2007 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. COIN-ACOFT 2007. Joint International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-0-9775657-3-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-9775657-3-3
DOI :
10.1109/COINACOFT.2007.4519122
