Optical Interconnects in Systems
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Future enhancement of system performance will decreasingly rely on reduction in transistor dimensions. Rather, performance gains will increasingly come from improved hardware and software architectures and emerging technologies such as optical interconnects which provide a new design-space for system designers. It is possible that hybrid opto-electronic interconnects may revolutionize system implementation in the next decade. Index Terms — Optical interconnects, parallel fiber-optics, free-space optical interconnect, IO bottleneck, end-system, quality-of-service
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