Design and Optimization of VCSEL-based Optical Interconnects

Electrical and optical interconnects are the foremost technologies for guided-wave digital communication. Electrical interconnects represent the current interface between logic and memory primitives inside most computational systems, but optical interconnects serve as a viable alternative technology, owing their recent popularity to increasing bandwidth constraints put on interconnects in the telecommunications industry and within computer architectures. In this work, technology is developed for use in optical interconnects using computer simulation models and verification by empirical measurements.