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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Energy-Efficient Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers for Optical Interconnects (Philip Moser, James A. Lott, Dieter Bimberg)....Pages 1-15 High-Speed InP-Based Long-Wavelength VCSELs (Silvia Spiga, Markus C. Amann)....Pages 17-35 Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers for Energy-Efficient Optical Communication (Holger Schmeckebier, Dieter Bimberg)....Pages 37-74 Quantum-Dot Mode-Locked Lasers: Sources for Tunable Optical and Electrical Pulse Combs (Dejan Arsenijević, Dieter Bimberg)....Pages 75-106 Nanophotonic Approach to Energy-Efficient Ultra-Fast All-Optical Gates (Grégory Moille, Sylvain Combrié, Alfredo De Rossi)....Pages 107-137 Alternative Logic Families for Energy-Efficient and High Performance Chip Design (Itamar Levi, Alexander Fish)....Pages 139-172 Secure Power Management and Delivery Within Intelligent Power Networks on-Chip (Inna Partin-Vaisband, Eby G. Friedman)....Pages 173-201 Energy Efficient System Architectures (Avinoam Kolodny)....Pages 203-214 Low-Cost Harvesting of Solar Energy: The Future of Global Photovoltaics (Eicke R. Weber, Stefan Glunz, H. -M. Henning, A. Palzer, R. Schindler)....Pages 215-261 Novel Thin-Film Photovoltaics—Status and Perspectives (Benjamin Oesen, Sascha Ullbrich, Johannes Widmer, Karl Leo)....Pages 263-287 Back Matter ....Pages 289-291
