April 22, 2024Photonics Research

High Capacity, Low Power, Short Reach Integrated Silicon Photonic Interconnects

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ANAndrew NethertonUniversity of California, Santa Barbara MDMario DumontNational Renewable Energy Laboratory ZNZachary NelsonUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

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Experimental evaluation demonstrates sub-picojoule-per-bit optical interconnects for short-reach systems, indicating viable scaling for energy-efficient high-capacity computing.

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Sub-picojoule-per-bit energy consumption is achieved in a short-reach optical interconnect design, demonstrating high-capacity data transmission across integrated silicon photonics.
Optical link experiments on a 1 Tbps architecture verify sub-picojoule operation using a quantum-dot mode-locked laser comb source, integrated on 300 mm wafer components.
These architecture strategies may enable thermal stability and scalable 3D silicon photonic-electronic integration, supporting future energy-efficient computing networks.

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Netherton et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6e1d5b6db64358765cfae https://doi.org/10.1364/prj.520203

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Experimental evaluation demonstrates sub-picojoule-per-bit optical interconnects for short-reach systems, indicating viable scaling for energy-efficient high-capacity computing.

High Capacity, Low Power, Short Reach Integrated Silicon Photonic Interconnects

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