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Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi

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Optical Interconnects<br />

• Optical interconnects (OIs)<br />

• potential to overcome communication bottleneck<br />

• replace electrical wires with optical waveguides<br />

• OIs offer many advantages over traditional electrical (copperbased)<br />

interconnects<br />

• can support enormous intrinsic data bandwidths in the order of several<br />

Gbps using only simple on–off modulation schemes<br />

• relatively immune to electrical interference due to crosstalk and parasitic<br />

capacitances<br />

• power dissipation completely independent of transmission distance at<br />

the chip level<br />

• routing and placement simplified since it is possible to physically<br />

intersect light beams with minimal crosstalk<br />

• once a path is acquired, transmission latency of the optical data is very<br />

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