Eisenstein G., Bimberg D. (eds.) Green Photonics and Electronics

Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 299 p. — (NanoScience and Technology). — ISBN: 978-3-319-67001-0.This books focuses on recent break-throughs in the development of a variety of photonic devices, serving distances ranging from mm to many km, together with their electronic counter-parts, e.g. the drivers for lasers, the amplifiers following the detectors and most important, the relevant advanced VLSI circuits. It explains that as a consequence of the increasing dominance of optical interconnects for high performance workstation clusters and supercomputers their complete design has to be revised. This book thus covers for the first time the whole variety of interdependent subjects contributing to green photonics and electronics, serving communication and energy harvesting. Alternative approaches to generate electric power using organic photovoltaic solar cells, inexpensive and again energy efficient in production are summarized.
In 2015, the use of the internet consumed 5-6% of the raw electricity production in developed countries. Power consumption increases rapidly and without some transformational change will use, by the middle of the next decade at the latest, the entire electricity production. This apocalyptic outlook led to a redirection of the focus of data center and HPC developers from just increasing bit rates and capacities to energy efficiency. The high speed interconnects are all based on photonic devices. These must and can be energy efficient but they operate in an electronic environment and therefore have to be considered in a wide scope that also requires low energy electronic devices, sophisticated circuit designs and clever architectures. The development of the next generation of high performance exaFLOP computers suffers from the same problem: Their energy consumption based on present device generations is essentially prohibitive.Energy-Efficient Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers for Optical Interconnects
VCSEL Energy Efficiency.
Energy Efficiency Figures of Merit.
Resonance Frequency and Modulation Bandwidth.
Energy Efficiency Analysis.
Energy Efficient Data Transmission Results.High-Speed InP-Based Long-Wavelength VCSELs
InP-Based VCSELs.
Single-Mode 1.55-pm Short-Cavity VCSELs.
VCSEL Arrays and Advanced Modulation Formats.Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers for Energy-Efficient Optical CommunicationBasics of Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers.
Phase Modulation of QD SOAs.
Concept of Dual-Communication-Band Amplifiers.
Signal Processing—Wavelength Conversion.Quantum-Dot Mode-Locked Lasers: Sources for Tunable Optical and Electrical Pulse Combs
Quantum-Dot Mode-Locked Lasers.
Jitter Reduction and Frequency Tuning.
Applications.Nanophotonic Approach to Energy-Efficient Ultra-Fast All-Optical Gates
Introduction: A Case for All-Optical Signal Processing.
Integrated All-Optical Gate.
Nonlinear Dynamics in PhC Resonators.
PhC All-Optical Gate.
Application Example: All-Optical Signal Sampling.
Conclusions.Alternative Logic Families for Energy-Efficient and High Performance Chip DesignBackground.
DML Basics.
DML Utilization for Increased E-D Flexibility.Secure Power Management and Delivery Within Intelligent Power Networks on-Chip
Power Network on-Chip for Distributed Power Delivery and Management.
Power Routing in SoCs.
Stable Distributed Power Delivery Systems.
Secure Power Delivery and Management.
Automated Design of Stable Power Delivery Systems.Energy Efficient System Architectures
Power Issues in Computing Systems.
Characteristics of the Power Reduction Problem.Low-Cost Harvesting of Solar Energy: The Future of Global Photovoltaics
Introduction: The Needed Transformation of Our Energy System, Limited Fossil Fuels, the Climate Problem.
The Role of Photovoltaics in Our Future Energy System, Based on Simulation of the German Energy System for 80% and More of Renewable Energy.
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics.
High-Concentration PV: CPV Technology.
Thin Film PV Technologies.
The Future of PV: Further Market Development, PV Going into the Terawatt Range.Novel Thin-Film Photovoltaics—Status and Perspectives
Introduction: Status of Photovoltaics in General.
Organic Photovoltaics.
Perovskite Photovoltaics.
Application of Different Solar Cell Technologies.