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Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi

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Optical Interconnects<br />

• Waveguide<br />

• path through which light is routed<br />

• refractive index of waveguide material has<br />

a significant impact on bandwidth, latency, and area of an OI<br />

• two promising alternatives for waveguide material that trade-off<br />

propagation speed and bandwidth<br />

• Silicon (Si)<br />

• lower propagation speed, but low area footprint (higher bandwidth density)<br />

• Polymer<br />

• higher propagation speed but greater area (reduced bandwidth density)

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