Application of optical interconnect technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Optical interconnects will be required to meet the information bandwidth requirements of future communication and computing applications. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, we are involved in applying optical interconnect technologies in two distinct application areas: multi-Gigabit/sec computer backplanes and Gigabit/sec wide area networking using wavelength division multiplexing. We discuss our efforts to integrate optical interconnect technologies into prototype computing and communication systems.