Micro-, diffractive and bulk optics for the smart-pixel optoelectronic connections (SPOEC) project

We describe the optical components of an optical interconnect system that has been designed to implement very high data rate communication to a silicon chip. The smart-pixel optoelectronic connections (SPOEC) project is a European collaborative project which aims at the construction of a 64/spl times/64 channel opto-electronic crossbar interconnect to demonstrate optical data i/o to Si-CMOS at aggregate rates in excess of 1 Tbit/s.