A silicon photonic chip-scale AWGR switch for high performance computing systems
CLEO: Science and Innovations, 2014•opg.optica.org
… The contented packets enter an electrical loopback buffer and re-enter the AWGR [2].
This paper presents a new silicon photonic AWGR switch for on-chip communication in
HPC systems [4]. Thanks to the short distance between nodes and the … We propose a
scalable chip-scale optical switch for HPC systems by leveraging wavelength routing
characteristics of the AWGR and silicon photonic integration. We prove its feasibility through
simulation results and experiment. …
This paper presents a new silicon photonic AWGR switch for on-chip communication in
HPC systems [4]. Thanks to the short distance between nodes and the … We propose a
scalable chip-scale optical switch for HPC systems by leveraging wavelength routing
characteristics of the AWGR and silicon photonic integration. We prove its feasibility through
simulation results and experiment. …
Abstract
This paper demonstrates a silicon-photonic AWGR-based optical switch for HPC systems. Simulations show high throughput and low latency even at high input load. A fabricated silicon-photonic AWGR switch with 32 Tx/Rx pairs showed error-free performance.
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