Optical Interconnection

Introduction - information processing's dependence on connectivity; the evolution of optical interconnection technology. Part 1 Motivational aspects - an introduction to optical interconnection: formalism of the current interconnect bottleneck; connection density analysis. Part 2 Current optical interconnection approaches and limitations: bulk waveguide routing - fiber optics; free space routing; integrated optical waveguide routing - micro-optics; optoelectronic interconnects and electronic packaging. Part 3 Applications of optical interconnects: polymer-based photonic integrated circuits and their applications in optical interconnects and signal processing; optical interconnection for use in hostile environments; an approach for implementing reconfigurable optical interconnection networks for massively parallel computing.