Smart Pixel Switching Nodes in Photonic EGS Networks: A Complexity Analysis
01 January 1992
Free-space digital optics is a new interconnection technology that may permit signals to be routed between digital integrated circuits as beams of light propagating orthogonal to the plane of the device substrates and routed via bulk or micro-optical components, such as lenses, beam-splitters, and holograms. This approach to device connectivity may offer several system-level benefits, including high bandwidth, high density connectivity (parallelism), low signal skew, low channel crosstalk, and lower overall system power dissipation. These benefits can help solve many packaging problems in the design of high-speed telecommunication switching networks in the future.