INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH PHOTONIC ELEMENTS

摘要

An integrated circuit with electronic and photonic elements includes: at least one electronic processing layer; at least one interconnect layer adjacent to said electronic processing layer, and at least one photonic element located within a respective interconnect layer. The photonic elements implement respective operations upon optical signals. At least a portion of each interconnect layer which includes photonic elements is optically-conductive, and therefore suitable for the inclusion of the photonic elements.;In some embodiments said photonic elements comprising optical waveguides are configures as optical logic gates to perform logic operations.

主权项

1. An integrated circuit with electronic and photonic elements, said integrated circuit comprising:
at least one electronic processing layer; at least one interconnect layer adjacent to said electronic processing layer, wherein at least a portion of said interconnect layer is optically-conductive; and at least one photonic element located within a respective interconnect layer, configured to implement a respective operation upon optical signals.