Abstract
One of the limiting factors in the design of large scale digital systems is communication [1]. The use of conventional wiring for high speed communication entails high energy dissipation, crosstalk, ground loops and low interconnect density due to physical size constraints. Miller has shown [2] that optical interconnections have fundamentally lower energy requirements than electronic communication owing to the closer matching of impedances over all but the shortest inter-device distances, provided appropriate optoelectronic integration technology exists.
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