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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Optical Interconnect could be rather easy!
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Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 16:48:08 GMT

Comments about the band-gap of the silicon letting you choose wavelengths
for which the chip material is transpernt to the interconnect beg one question:
what about the metallization? You still need power, and the rails are plain
old aluminum: won't they be opaque to the IR?
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