Title :
State of the art of electrical high speed backplanes in industry today and the transition to optical interconnects
Author :
Gisin, Franz ; Dudnikov, George
Abstract :
The current status of high-speed electrical backplanes including their capabilities, prospects for extending them, and factors that impact their performance will be presented. The potential benefits of optical interconnect and the technical challenges in migrating from electrical to optical will also be covered.
Keywords :
optical backplanes; reviews; electrical high speed backplanes; optical interconnect; state of the art; Backplanes; Costs; Dielectric losses; Dielectric materials; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8306-0
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338678
