Optical interconnects for extreme scale computing systems

S Rumley, M Bahadori, R Polster, SD Hammond… - Parallel Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
Large-scale high performance computing is permeating nearly every corner of modern
applications spanning from scientific research and business operations, to medical …

Flexfly: Enabling a reconfigurable dragonfly through silicon photonics

K Wen, P Samadi, S Rumley, CP Chen… - SC'16: Proceedings …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Dragonfly topology provides low-diameter connectivity for high-performance computing
with all-to-all global links at the inter-group level. Our traffic matrix characterization of various …

Synchronous subnanosecond clock and data recovery for optically switched data centres using clock phase caching

KA Clark, D Cletheroe, T Gerard, I Haller, K Jozwik… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The rapid growth in the amount of data being transferred within data centres, combined with
the slowdown in Moore's Law, creates challenges for the future scalability of electronically …

Bridging the last mile for optical switching in data centers

H Ballani, P Costa, I Haller, K Jozwik… - 2018 Optical Fiber …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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2018 Bridging the Last Mile for Optical Switching in Data Centers Hitesh Ballani Paolo Costa …

Automated routing and control of silicon photonic switch fabrics

A Annoni, E Guglielmi, M Carminati… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic reconfiguration and feedback controlled routing is demonstrated in an silicon
photonic switch fabric based on Mach–Zehnder interferometers. The use of noninvasive …

Automated wavelength alignment in a 4× 4 silicon thermo-optic switch based on dual-ring resonators

Q Zhu, X Jiang, Y Yu, R Cao, H Zhang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate an automated resonance wavelength
alignment scheme for an O-band 4× 4 thermo-optic optical switch using dual-ring …

Broadband optical switch for multiple spatial modes based on a silicon densely packed waveguide array

K Chen, J Yan, S He, L Liu - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A broadband thermo-optic 2× 2 Mach–Zehnder switch that can control two spatial modes
simultaneously on a silicon chip is demonstrated in this Letter. A broadband multimode 3 dB …

Software-defined control-plane for wavelength selective unicast and multicast of optical data in a silicon photonic platform

A Gazman, C Browning, M Bahadori, Z Zhu… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a programmable control-plane based on field programmable gate array
(FPGA) with a power-efficient algorithm for optical unicast, multicast, and broadcast …

Broadband optical waveguide couplers with arbitrary coupling ratios designed using a genetic algorithm

PH Fu, YC Tu, DW Huang - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we present a generalized design of broadband optical waveguide couplers with
arbitrary coupling ratios on the silicon-on-insulator platform. The device is segmented into …

Time-division packet spatial super-channel switching system with 53.3 Tb/s/port for converged inter/intradata center optical networks

JMD Mendinueta, S Shinada, Y Hirota… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents and experimentally demonstrates a novel high-capacity switching
system with several types of optical switches, based on time division multiplexing, space …