ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses expected applications of Self-Organized Lightwave Network (SOLNET). Lightwaves have penetrated into communication/switching systems and computers to provide advanced optoelectronic (OE) systems, and into energy conversion and bio-medical fields. SOLNETs are expected to reduce the cost and energy dissipation and to create new architectures in these OE systems. To form SOLNETs in the 3D structure, write-beam insertion is a serious concern. Because the 3D-integrated optical interconnects have a large number of optical coupling points, it is hard to introduce write beams into the points, particularly, points in the inner parts of the stacked structure. The R-SOLNET with luminescent targets enables optical waveguide formation toward microscale or nanoscale luminescent targets. The chapter presents integrated optical interconnects and switching systems that are proposed to solve the optics excess problem and examples for "How SOLNETs contribute to constructing these proposed structures".
