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Two-dimensional parallel optoelectronic links are proposed for interconnections between electronic boards. Experiments were performed with LED-arrays and laserdiodes as the light transmitter, multimode fibre-arrays and imaging systems for light guiding and a CMOS opto-ASIC as highly sensitive light-receiver (detection limit is 1 fJ bit−1 at a bit error rate of less than 10−9). In the experiment each channel has a data rate of 10 Mbits−1, the system is designed for 128 parallel channels occupying an area of less than 1 cm2 and thus providing an overall throughput of more than 1 Gbits−1. The applications are connections between CPUs and shared memories within a multiprocessor system.
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Zürl, K., Streibl, N. Optoelectronic array interconnections. Opt Quant Electron 24, S405–S414 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00619509
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