Mr. Feldman et al., HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS FOR VLSI MULTICHIP MODULES, IEEE transactions on components, packaging, and manufacturing technology. Part B, Advanced packaging, 17(2), 1994, pp. 223-227
The design of a prototype multichip module utilizing free-space hologr
aphic optical interconnects is discussed. This prototype incorporates
GaAs laser array chips and silicon CMOS chips which are flip-chip bond
ed to the transparent MCM substrate. Computer generated holograms are
etched onto the opposite side of the MCM substrate to form optical lin
ks between lasers and photodetectors that are integrated onto the CMOS
chips. Comparisons are then performed between optical interconnects a
nd electrical interconnects showing that for a 5-cm link the dissipate
d power can be reduced by at least an order of magnitude, for datarate
s in the range of 700 MHz to 4 Ghz, by using optical interconnects.