Optoelectronic memory applications for VCSEL-based smart pixels

摘要

I discuss applications of optoelectronic VLSI devices for spatially parallel high-performance photonic interconnects, network interfaces and parallel cellular computing. I present detailed applications to error-correction and input/output formatting in optical page-oriented memory systems and present some particular implementations using VCSEL, LED, and modulator-based smart pixel technologies. I review some performance characteristics and requirements for various optoelectronic memory architectures and the mapping of their processing and interconnection requirements onto optoelectronic smart pixels. I also consider system integration and packaging with diffractive optical elements (DOEs), micro-optics, and lenslets.