Polymer Based All-Optic Reconfigurable Interconnects

摘要

In Phase I of this project, POC successfully implemented a prototype all-opticreconfigurable polymer-based crossbar switch. POC's all-optic reconfigurable polymer-based crossbar switch represents a unique combination of polymer techniques, simple geometry optics, and waveguide technology. These three essential technologies are original POC developments. POC's crossbar switch will provide reconfigurability, large fan-out, and radiation hardening. This is a new technology for both parallel and distributed processing and communication networks. The Phase I results have shown that POC's crossbar switch can offer a number of important advantages not achievable by either electronic interconnects or currently existing all-optic reconfigurable interconnects. These advantages include: (1) very low power sources (-100 mW), (2) relatively high interconnect reconfigurability time, (3) high data rates over 1 Gb/sec, (4) low bit error rate