Linking with light [high-speed optical interconnects].

Linking with light [high-speed optical interconnects].

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Having proven their worth in long-distance communications, photons will soon take over inside the computer. So some researchers say that, within just a few years, many of the copper connections in computers will yield to high-speed optical interconnects, in which photons, rather than electrons, will...

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I publikationen:IEEE spectrum 39, 8(duplicate) (2002).
Huvudupphovsman: Savage, N.
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:English
Ämnen:
Internet traffic.
High-speed optical interconnects.
Laser beam modulation.
Long-distance communications.
Microprocessors.
Optical technologies.
Photodetector.
Photons.
Processor.
Waveguide.