Silicon Photonics Link

Silicon Photonics Link
Type	Computer Hardware Bus
Production history
Designer	Intel Corporation
Manufacturer	Intel Corporation
Data
Data signal	Yes
Bitrate	50 Gbit/s

Silicon Photonics Link is a silicon-based optical data connection developed by Intel Corporation which uses silicon photonics and hybrid silicon laser, it provides 50 Gbit/s bandwidth. Intel expected the technology to be in products by 2015.^[1]

This technology is enabled and well supported by academic and industrial research work at Intel labs,^[2] 50 Gbit/s multi-color transmission line at Cornell University^[3]^[4] and Columbia University.^[5]

References[edit]

^ Shah, Agam (27 April 2011). "Intel Eyes Post-Thunderbolt Interconnect for 2015". PC World. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
^ Paniccia, Mario; Nicolaescu, Remus; Cohen, Oded; Doron Rubin; Samara-Rubio, Dean; Liao, Ling; Jones, Richard; Liu, Ansheng (February 2004). "A high-speed silicon optical modulator based on a metal–oxide–semiconductor capacitor". Nature. 427 (6975): 615–618. doi:10.1038/nature02310. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 14961115.
^ Lipson, Michal; Chen, Long; Manipatruni, Sasikanth (2010-08-02). "Ultra high bandwidth WDM using silicon microring modulators". Optics Express. 18 (16): 16858–16867. Bibcode:2010OExpr..1816858M. doi:10.1364/OE.18.016858. ISSN 1094-4087. PMID 20721078.
^ "Michal Lipson". www.macfound.org. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
^ Bergman, Keren; Lipson, Michal; Chen, Long; Ophir, Noam; Manipatruni, Sasikanth; Biberman, Aleksandr (2010-07-19). "First demonstration of long-haul transmission using silicon microring modulators". Optics Express. 18 (15): 15544–15552. Bibcode:2010OExpr..1815544B. doi:10.1364/OE.18.015544. ISSN 1094-4087. PMID 20720934.

External links[edit]

[1] Shah, Agam (27 April 2011). "Intel Eyes Post-Thunderbolt Interconnect for 2015". PC World. Retrieved 28 April 2011.

[2] Paniccia, Mario; Nicolaescu, Remus; Cohen, Oded; Doron Rubin; Samara-Rubio, Dean; Liao, Ling; Jones, Richard; Liu, Ansheng (February 2004). "A high-speed silicon optical modulator based on a metal–oxide–semiconductor capacitor". Nature. 427 (6975): 615–618. doi:10.1038/nature02310. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 14961115.

[3] Lipson, Michal; Chen, Long; Manipatruni, Sasikanth (2010-08-02). "Ultra high bandwidth WDM using silicon microring modulators". Optics Express. 18 (16): 16858–16867. Bibcode:2010OExpr..1816858M. doi:10.1364/OE.18.016858. ISSN 1094-4087. PMID 20721078.

[4] "Michal Lipson". www.macfound.org. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 2019-07-14.

[5] Bergman, Keren; Lipson, Michal; Chen, Long; Ophir, Noam; Manipatruni, Sasikanth; Biberman, Aleksandr (2010-07-19). "First demonstration of long-haul transmission using silicon microring modulators". Optics Express. 18 (15): 15544–15552. Bibcode:2010OExpr..1815544B. doi:10.1364/OE.18.015544. ISSN 1094-4087. PMID 20720934.

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v t e Technical and de facto standards for wired computer buses
General	System bus Front-side bus Back-side bus Daisy chain Control bus Address bus Bus contention Bus mastering Network on a chip Plug and play List of bus bandwidths
Standards	SS-50 bus S-100 bus Multibus Unibus VAXBI MBus STD Bus SMBus Q-Bus Europe Card Bus ISA STEbus Zorro II Zorro III CAMAC FASTBUS LPC HP Precision Bus EISA VME VXI VXS NuBus TURBOchannel MCA SBus VLB HP GSC bus InfiniBand Ethernet UPA PCI PCI Extended (PCI-X) PXI PCI Express (PCIe) AGP Compute Express Link (CXL) Direct Media Interface (DMI) RapidIO Intel QuickPath Interconnect NVLink HyperTransport Infinity Fabric Intel Ultra Path Interconnect Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) SpaceWire
Storage	ST-506 ESDI IPI SMD Parallel ATA (PATA) Bus and Tag DSSI HIPPI Serial ATA (SATA) SCSI Parallel SAS ESCON Fibre Channel SSA SATAe PCI Express (via AHCI or NVMe logical device interface)
Peripheral	Apple Desktop Bus Atari SIO DCB Commodore bus HP-IL HIL MIDI RS-232 RS-422 RS-423 RS-485 Lightning DMX512-A IEEE-488 (GPIB) IEEE-1284 (parallel port) IEEE-1394 (FireWire) UNI/O 1-Wire I²C (ACCESS.bus, PMBus, SMBus) I3C SPI D²B Parallel SCSI Profibus USB Camera Link External PCIe Thunderbolt
Audio	ADAT Lightpipe AES3 Intel HD Audio I²S MADI McASP S/PDIF TOSLINK
Portable	PC Card ExpressCard
Embedded	Multidrop bus CoreConnect AMBA (AXI) Wishbone SLIMbus
Interfaces are listed by their speed in the (roughly) ascending order, so the interface at the end of each section should be the fastest. Category

v t e Intel technology
Platforms	Centrino Centrino 2 Viiv MID Tablet CULV Ultrabook Skulltrail NUC Galileo Edison Curie Evo
Discontinued	Common Building Block MultiProcessor Specification Intel Communication Streaming Architecture Intel Inboard 386 Intel Play MMC-1 MMC-2
Current	Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller CNVi Intel Turbo Boost vPro Intel Secure Key Intel Management Engine Active Management Technology AMT versions High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection High Definition Audio Hub Architecture Rapid Storage Technology SpeedStep Serial Digital Video Out Host Embedded Controller Interface Hyper-threading Omni-Path Platform Environment Control Interface QuickPath Interconnect Platform Controller Hub System Management Bus Thunderbolt Ultra Path Interconnect
Upcoming	Silicon Photonics Link

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