Feed Your Mind - THz Interconnect, Complement to Electrical and Optical Interconnects

#THZ #communications

“Interconnect Gap” has been a long-standing big challenge caused
by the gap between the ever-increasing data rate demand of inter-/intrachip
communications and the insufficient capabilities. Existing electrical
interconnect (EI) and optical interconnect (OI) face grand barriers to
completely address the interconnect issues individually. THz Interconnect
(TI), utilizing the frequency spectrum sandwiched between microwave and
optical frequencies, holds the high potentials to complement EI and OI by
leveraging the advantages of both electronics and optics.
In this talk, I will present our research activities in the high potential TI
field, including THz silicon waveguide channel development, TI system
demonstration, dispersion constrained link bandwidth and mitigation schemes
such as Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) and Mode Division Multiplexing
(MDM).