Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi
Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi
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)