Optical Interconnects Optical interconnects (OIs) have potential to overcome communication bottleneck by replacing electrical wires with optical waveguides OIs offer many advantages over traditional electrical (copper- based) interconnects can support enormous intrinsic data bandwidths in the order of several Gbps using only simple on–off modulation schemes relatively immune to electrical interference due to crosstalk, and parasitic capacitances and inductances power dissipation is completely independent of transmission distance at the chip level routing and placement is simplified since it is possible to physically intersect light beams with minimal crosstalk.
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