Patent ID: 7894699

Claim:
A photonic-based interconnect for interconnecting subsystems of electronic mosaics, the photonic-based interconnect comprising: a first photonic node coupled directly to a subsystem of a first electronic mosaic and configured to transmit electromagnetic signals encoding data generated by the subsystem of the first electronic mosaic to a second electronic mosaic and receive electromagnetic signal encoding data generated by one or more subsystems of the second electronic mosaic; a second photonic node coupled directly to a subsystem of the second electronic mosaic and configured to transmit electromagnetic signals encoding data generated by the subsystem of the second electronic mosaic to the first electronic mosaic and receive electromagnetic signals encoding data generated by one or more subsystems of the first electronic mosaic; and a bus waveguide coupled to both the first photonic node and the second photonic node and configured to transmit electromagnetic signals between the first photonic node and the second photonic node.