Stanford Seminar - Saving Energy and Increasing Density in Information Processing Using Photonics

This seminar examines why electrical interconnects limit information-processing energy efficiency and density, and how integrated photonics, silicon photonics, and free-space optics could address these limits in and between computing machines.

Syllabus

Introduction.
Summary.
Growth in information communication and processing.
The first transatlantic cable (1865).
What's wrong with wires?.
Density problem in electrical interconnects.
Wiring density.
ITRS Projected Chip Performance - Bytes/FLOP.
Energies for communications and computations.
Data rates at different length scales.
Interconnect power.
Logic and wiring capacitance.
Quantum impedance conversion.
Capacitance of small structures for f operation.
Mask and layout for nanoantenna.
Eliminating receiver energy.
Large synchronous systems?.
Free-space arrays of beams.
Conclusions.