Prospects and challenges of photonic switching in data centers and computing systems

SJB Yoo - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This Tutorial will discuss the motivation, benefits, and challenges of photonic switching in
data centers and cover prospects of future data centers involving emerging new …

Loss in hollow-core optical fibers: mechanisms, scaling rules, and limits

E Numkam Fokoua, S Abokhamis Mousavi… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Over the past few years, progress in hollow-core optical fiber technology has reduced the
attenuation of these fibers to levels comparable to those of all-solid silica-core single-mode …

Optics in computing: From photonic network-on-chip to chip-to-chip interconnects and disintegrated architectures

T Alexoudi, N Terzenidis, S Pitris… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following a decade of radical advances in the areas of integrated photonics and computing
architectures, we discuss the use of optics in the current computing landscape attempting to …

Opsquare: A flat DCN architecture based on flow-controlled optical packet switches

F Yan, W Miao, O Raz, N Calabretta - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Aiming at solving the scaling issues of bandwidth and latency in current hierarchical data
center network (DCN) architectures, we propose and investigate a novel optical flat DCN …

High-performance photonic integrated circuits on silicon

R Helkey, AAM Saleh, J Buckwalter… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous integration of III–V semiconductor photonics combined with silicon foundry
technology enables low-cost, high-performance photonic integrated circuits. Highly reliable …

HiFOST: A scalable and low-latency hybrid data center network architecture based on flow-controlled fast optical switches

F Yan, X Xue, N Calabretta - Journal of Optical Communications …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To solve the bandwidth and latency issues in current hierarchical data center network (DCN)
architectures based on electrical switches, we propose a novel hybridDCNarchitecture …

Loss in hollow-core fibers: mechanisms, scaling rules, and limits

E Numkam Fokoua… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Over the past few years, progress in hollow-core optical fiber technology has reduced the
attenuation of these fibers to levels comparable to those of all-solid silica-core single-mode …

Optical switching will innovate intra data center networks [Invited Tutorial]

K Sato - Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reflecting the recent slow-down in Moore's law and the proliferation of artificial
intelligence/machine learning workloads, the performance and energy consumption of …

Architecture and performance studies of 3D-Hyper-FleX-LION for reconfigurable all-to-all HPC networks

G Liu, R Proietti, M Fariborz, P Fotouhi… - … Conference for High …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the Fat-Tree network topology represents the dominant state-of-art solution for large-
scale HPC networks, its scalability in terms of power, latency, complexity, and cost is …

Silicon photonic Flex-LIONS for bandwidth-reconfigurable optical interconnects

X Xiao, R Proietti, G Liu, H Lu, P Fotouhi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports the first experimental demonstration of silicon photonic (SiPh) Flex-
LIONS, a bandwidth-reconfigurable SiPh switching fabric based on wavelength routing in …