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Agilent/DARPA PONI, Parallel Optical Interconnect The PONI Page (1998 – 2000)

Bindu Madhavan 
Thesis title: “Multi-Gigabit/s/channel Parallel Optical Data Link Design in CMOS Technology” (size: 7,773 KB)
Bharath Raghavan 
Thesis title: “Multi-Gigabit/second Parallel Fiber-optic Ring Network for Multimedia Applications(size: 5,322KB)

Picture of Agilent PONI Module

PONI integrates functionality of CMOS ICs and parallel fiber-optic technologies developed by USC and Agilent. This project leverages work pioneered by the POLO program.
 Publications:  Optical Interconnects in Systems, A.F.J. Levi, Proceedings of IEEE, 88, 750-757 (2000)
Link components for a 2.5 Gb/s/channel 12-wide parallel optical interface in 0.5 um CMOS, LEOS 2000.
 A Gbyte/s Parallel Fiber-Optic Network Interface for Multimedia Applications, B. Raghavan, Y.-G. Kim, T.-Y. Chuang, B. Madhavan, and A. F. J. Levi, IEEE Network 13, 20-28 (1999).
 A 55.0 Gb/s/cm data bandwidth density interface in 0.5 um CMOS for advanced parallel optical interconnects, B. Madhavan and A. F. J. Levi, Electron. Lett. 34, 1846-1847 (1998).

Parallel optics is now an Agilent product