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Fast electronic/optical interconnectivity for processing digital data
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Categories
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Optoelectronics / Photonics, Optoelectronic Computing & Optical Communication
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Development Stage
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Concept
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Patent Status
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PCT patent filed
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Market Size
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The 2003 worldwide market for semiconductor optoelectronic components was estimated at $9 billion, forecast to grow by an annual average growth rate of 20% to over $22.3 billion by 2008
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Highlights
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There is a growing demand to process larger volumes of digital data at ever increasing speeds plus exponential growth in performance of the basic microelectronic components
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Current interconnection network, comprising multilayered complex of parallel electrical conduits, is a major bottle neck
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Optical communication links provide effective, fast transport for large volumes of digital data over long distances in telecommunication
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Problem: electronic data is in the form of digital, parallel-electronic words while optical data is organized as a serial string of photonic bits or digital, serial-optic words – need method for cost-effective conversion.
Our Innovation
ORTA is a generic architecture for converting between digital, parallel-electronic words and digital, serial-optic words incorporating two processes:
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Conversion between parallel and serial signals by complex multiplexing or de-multiplexing; and
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Conversion between the electronic and the optic representations of the signals using fast electronic devices and optoelectronic modulators.
Key Features
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Generic architecture optimized for conversion of digital data back and forth from electrical pulses to photonic pulses
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Effective for data conversion from electronic circuit to optical fiber and vice versa
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ORTA operates at the rate of the data processing of the electronic processors without the need for ultrafast optoelectronic transmitters and receivers
Development Milestones
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