Patent ID: 7907848
Filing Date: 2011-03-15
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. An on-chip low-energy optical signal method of controllably interconnecting a first CMOS electrical circuit with a second CMOS electrical circuit, said method comprising the steps of: generating, from an output electrical signal of said first CMOS electrical circuit, a first CMOS electrical circuit output electrical signal responsive optical signal within a resonant silicon semiconductor material optical waveguide having cavities with at least one of a periodic table group IV material grown therein, said waveguide connecting said first CMOS electrical circuit and said second CMOS electrical circuit; communicating said optical signal along said resonant silicon semiconductor material waveguide to an optical to electrical signal transducer disposed in optical coupling with said resonant silicon semiconductor material waveguide; and forming in said optical to electrical signal transducer an optical signal responsive electrical signal input of said second CMOS electrical circuit.