COURSE

MICS6000E

Photonics and Optical Interconnects

Function Hub / Microelectronics · 3 Credits

High-performance computation is increasingly limited by the bottleneck of electrical interconnect and communication between multiple chip modules. Optical interconnects can solve the limiting density and power problems. This is an introductory course to optical communications and interconnects. Topics include optical interconnects, optical communication technologies, photonic waveguides and optical fibers, wave optics and transmission characteristics, key integrated passive and active photonic integrated components, photonic integrated circuits, optical modulation formats, multiplexing techniques, optical communication system, and the recent trends and developments in optical interconnects.