Phase II Amount
$1,500,000
The primary goal of the proposed Phase II effort is to develop monolithic distributed optoelectronic crossbar modules for implementation of high performance distributed crossbar backplanes. The high density monolithic crossbar modules will enable distributed backplane architectures that are highly scalable. In addition, the distributed crossbar modules will provide backplanes that are high speed, low latency, fault tolerant, protocol independent. The monolithic crossbar modules will be realized using the company's optoelectronic integrated circuit technologies. Anticipated Benefits/Commercial Applications: The proposed program will offer a dual-use commercialization opportunity for high performance backplanes because it will provide a transparent, high speed, protocol independent system which can be readily implemented into both military and commercial backplane applications. The program technology has significant commercial potential with projected optical backplane sales of $1.95 billion in 2008. Other potential markets, such as LANSs, MANs, WANs, and SANs, significantly increase the commercial potential of the technology.
Keywords: optoelectronic crossbar, optical backplane, distributed switching, fault tolerant, optoelectronic integrated circuit, VCSELs, resonant cavity photodetectors, monolithic integration
Keywords: VCSEL, waveguide, resonant cavity detector, chip-to-chip interconnects, redundancy, fault tolerance, dynamic interconnect, reduced latency, sol-gel