Article Abstracts | March 2006
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Silicon Photonics Poised to Invade Local Area Networks
By integrating optical functions into a microprocessor fabrication process, engineers can achieve the performance of optical links within the existing framework of silicon electronics.
by Cary Gunn, Luxtera Inc.
The time for the mainstream adoption of optical links in the local area network (LAN) has arrived.
Brave optical engineers have uttered these words each time the need for more bandwidth appeared to challenge the capability of copper links. They almost always have been wrong. Silicon designers, wielding ever more sophisticated design tools and riding the speed improvements of Moore’s law, have always found solutions for the problems facing mainstream copper links...
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