Performance Evaluation of Transmission System Using Optical Sheet Bus Technology
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The Performance of future generation computing systems will be limited by electrical interconnections, and thus many optical interconnection technologies are proposed to solve this problem. We have proposed optical sheet bus technology which use diffusion controlled light in the stacked planar waveguides that makes capability of broadcasting, synchronous multi-channel transmission and simultaneous bi-directional transmission with easy alignment. Fabricating the transmission system using optical sheet bus technology, data rates of 500Mbps with bit-error rates smaller than 10^<-11> were achieved with received optical power of -20.5dBm. We found that optical sheet bus technology can be applied to the inter-board and intra-board bus. such as the bus between CPUs and memories and the backplane bus.
