computer systems as well as telecommunication networks. Modern information systems handleever-increasing data loads which strain the data throughput ability of information systems. Designers have made significant progress in increasing processorspeeds, however progress in the design of high-speed interconnection networks has lagged so much so that the most significant bottleneck in today's informationsystems is the low speed of communications between integrated chips. These low speed communications networks consume increasing amounts of power in aneffort to keep up with the faster processors. The slow communications speed is brought on by the small bandwidth available to existing communications networksbased on the propagation of electrical signals through metallic lines. Optical interconnections offer several advantages over metallic interconnections, they include: higher bandwidth; higher interconnection densities; lower crosstalk; crosstalk which is independent of data rate; inherent parallelism; immunity from electromagnetic interference and ground loops; the ability to exploit the third dimension; lower clock and signal skew; and a higher fan-in/fan-out capability. These advantages mean that optical interconnections have the potential to exhibit higher data rate communication, higher densities of interconnections with lower crosstalk, and lower power consumption. The shortest interconnections however, will remain electrical ones, due in part to the inverse relationship between electrical interconnection length and power consumption, and to a length independent minimum latency time inherent to optical interconnections caused by the time delays required for electrical to optical to electrical conversion.Agrawal, G.P. (1992). Fiber-optic communication systems. New York: Wiley.This source provides details pertaining to my research. It provides details regarding the selection of fiber parameters. It says about the process by which...
