DocumentCode
3407547
Title
Prospects for free-space optics in digital systems
Author
Lytel, Rick ; Davidson, Howard ; Nettleton, Nyles ; Sze, Theresa
Author_Institution
Sun Microsyst., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Volume
2
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
880
Abstract
It has become painfully obvious to designers of optical devices and free-space links that their technology has yet to find a home inside the computer. PCs may have “Intel Inside” but they definitely don´t have VCSELs inside, save for the board edge where they´re in modules communicating outside the box. Why is this the case and when will it change?
Keywords
optical computing; digital system; free-space optics; personal computer; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Computer peripherals; Digital systems; Optical computing; Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers; Sun; Telecommunication computing; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5634-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.1999.812016
Filename
812016
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