Optical proximity communication using reflective mirrors.
Optical proximity communication (OPxC) with reflecting mirrors is presented. Direct optical links are demonstrated for silicon chips with better than -2.5dB coupling loss, excluding surface losses. OPxC is a true broadband solution with little impairment to the signal integrity for high-speed optical transmission. With wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) enabled OPxC, very high bandwidth density I/O, orders of magnitude higher than the traditional electrical I/O, can be achieved for silicon chips.
Zheng
Xuezhe
X
Sun Microsystems Inc, 9515 Towne Centre Dr, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. xuezhe.zheng@sun.com
Cunningham
John E
JE
Shubin
Ivan
I
Simons
John
J
Asghari
Mehdi
M
Feng
Dazeng
D
Lei
Hongbin
H
Zheng
Dawei
D
Liang
Hong
H
Kung
Cheng-chih
CC
Luff
Jonathan
J
Sze
Theresa
T
Cohen
Danny
D
Krishnamoorthy
Ashok V
AV
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