Irvine Sensors receives Army optical interconnect contract

17 Jun 2002

Irvine Sensors Corporation has received a contract from the U.S. Army to develop a low-cost, high-speed optoelectronic module that can be used for parallel processors and network switching and routing. The goal of the module will be to minimize "bottlenecks" in optically-switched systems and networks by embedding all required electronics and optical interconnects in silicon layers which can be stacked using three-dimensional technologies. The resulting devices are expected to reduce the electronic racks from the size of a foot locker to the size of a pager.