Abstract
We investigate the scaling characteristics of slow light optical buffers for optical packet switching, and compare slow light buffers with future 22-mn eDRAM SiCMOS buffers. The dissipated energy per bit stored in slow light buffers increases quadratically with capacity.
© 2006 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Rodney S. Tucker
OFJ3 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006
Jacob B Khurgin
JTuA1 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2007
Neda Beheshti, Yashar Ganjali, Ramesh Rajaduray, Daniel Blumenthal, and Nick McKeown
OThF8 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006