CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
FEATURES
TODAYS CHALLENGES
LIGHT PEAK VS USB 3.0
COMPONENT OVERVIEW
VCSEL
OPTICAL MODULE
CONTROLLER CHIP
ADVANTAGES
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES



INTRODUCTION
Light peak is the code name for the high speed optical cable technology

It connects electronic devices to each other

Delivers bandwidth of 10Gb/s with a potential to scale to 100Gb/s.


Features
Provide a standard low cost optical based interconnect
- support for key existing protocols(USB ....etc

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Vertical Cavity surface Emission Lasers (VCSEL) are lasers that emit light from their surface in contrast with regular ???edge emittersâ„¢. Also they have got a vertical cavity , as the name suggests, which enables surface emission.???Vixels??? , as they are commonly called ,have several superior characteristics compared to their edge emitting counter parts.

VCSEL Semiconductor micro laser diodes which emit light perpendicular to their PN junction in a cylindrical beam vertically from the surface of a fabricated wafer and feature circul ....etc

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ABSTRACT
Quantum Dots(QDs) are small conductive regions in a semiconductor, containing a number of charge carriers(from one to thousand) that occupy well defined discrete quantum states. They have typical dimensions between nanometers to a few microns .When the space at any side, around a material shrinks to 100Ã…, quantisation of the energy levels at the reduced side will occur. In quantum dots electrons are confined in all directions to a volume in space with dimensions on the order of their de Broglie wave lengt ....etc

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1. INTRODUCTION

With the growth of computing technology the need of high performance computers (HPC) has significantly increased. Optics has been used in computing for a number of years but the main emphasis has been and continues to be to page link portions of computers, for communications, or more intrinsically in devices that have some optical application or component (optical pattern recognition etc.)

Optical computing was a hot research area in 1980â„¢s.But the work tapered ....etc

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OPTICAL COMPUTING


SEMINAR REPORT On OPTICAL COMPUTING
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
COCHIN “ 682022
NOVEMBER, 2008 2

ABSTRACT
Computers have become an indispensable part of life. We need computers everywhere, be it for work, research or in any such field. As the use of computers in our day-to-day life increases, the computing resources that we need also go up. For ....etc

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ABSTRACT
Optical computing means performing computations, operations, storage and transmission of data using light. Instead of silicon chips optical computer uses organic polymers like phthalocyanine and polydiacetylene.Optical technology promises massive upgrades in the efficiency and speed of computers, as well as significant shrinkage in their size and cost. An optical desktop computer is capable of processing data up to 1,00,000 times faster than current models.
1. INTRODUCTION

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ABSTRACT
Smart pixels, the integration of photodetector arrays and processing electronics on a single semiconductor chip, have been driven by its capability to perform parallel processing of large pixelated images and in real-time reduce a complex image into a manageable stream of signals that can be brought off-chip. In recent years, optical modulators and emitters have been integrated with photodetectors and on-chip electronics. The potential uses for smart pixels are almost as varied as are the designs. They can be used ....etc

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ABSTRACT
Optical computing means performing computations, operations, storage and transmission of data using light. Instead of silicon chips optical computer uses organic polymers like phthalocyanine and polydiacetylene.Optical technology promises massive upgrades in the efficiency and speed of computers, as well as significant shrinkage in their size and cost. An optical desktop computer is capable of processing data up to 1,00,000 times faster than current models.

1. INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION

From its origin more than 25 years ago, Ethernet has evolved to meet the increasing demands of packet-switched networks. Due to its proven low implementation cost, its known reliability, and relative simplicity of installation and maintenance, its popularity has grown to the point that today nearly all traffic on the Internet originates or ends with an Ethernet connection. Further, as the demand for ever-faster network speeds has grown, Ethernet has been adapted to handle these higher speeds and the concomi ....etc

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INTRODUCTION
With the growth of computing technology the need of high performance computers (HPC) has significantly increased. Optics has been used in computing for a number of years but the main emphasis has been and continues to be to page link portions of computers, for communications, or more intrinsically in devices that have some optical application or component (optical pattern recognition etc.)Optical computing was a hot research area in 1980’s.But the work tapered off due to materials limitations tha ....etc

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In an information society, where the primary preoccupation in life is the generation, dissemination and management of information, there is an ever-increasing appetite for computing power and interconnection bandwidth. In the coming era of teraflop computing and multi terabyte storage, multiple processors and large data stores will be interconnected with up to terabit per second aggregate bandwidth over distance extending from just centimeters to hundreds of meters. VCSEL based optical interconnections can meet the speed, distance and density d ....etc

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