Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, M Glick, S Rumley, K Bergman - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

On-chip silicon photonic signaling and processing: a review

J Wang, Y Long - Science Bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …

Large-scale broadband digital silicon photonic switches with vertical adiabatic couplers

TJ Seok, N Quack, S Han, RS Muller, MC Wu - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Large-scale photonic switches are essential devices for energy-and cost-efficient optical
communication networks in cloud and data-intensive computing. Silicon photonics is an …

Low-loss integrated photonic switch using subwavelength patterned phase change material

C Wu, H Yu, H Li, X Zhang, I Takeuchi, M Li - Acs Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
Efficient integrated photonic switches play a critical role in both interchip optical
interconnects and data center networks that need to be dynamically reconfigured. Here, we …

16× 16 non-blocking silicon optical switch based on electro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometers

L Lu, S Zhao, L Zhou, D Li, Z Li, M Wang, X Li… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate a 16× 16 non-blocking optical switch fabric with a footprint
of 10.7× 4.4 mm^ 2. The switch fabric is composed of 56 2× 2 silicon Mach-Zehnder …

32× 32 silicon electro-optic switch with built-in monitors and balanced-status units

L Qiao, W Tang, T Chu - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
To construct large-scale silicon electro-optical switches for optical interconnections, we
developed a method using a limited number of power monitors inserted at certain positions …

Monolithically integrated multilayer silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide platforms for 3-D photonic circuits and devices

WD Sacher, JC Mikkelsen, Y Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review and provide additional details about our progress on multilayer
silicon nitride (SiN)-on-silicon (Si) integrated photonic platforms. In these platforms, one or …

Multilayer silicon nitride-on-silicon integrated photonic platforms and devices

WD Sacher, Y Huang, GQ Lo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We review and present additional results from our work on multilayer silicon nitride (SiN) on
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) integrated photonic platforms over the telecommunication …

Low-loss and broadband 2× 2 silicon thermo-optic Mach–Zehnder switch with bent directional couplers

S Chen, Y Shi, S He, D Dai - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A low-loss and broadband silicon thermo-optic switch is proposed and demonstrated
experimentally by using a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer with 2× 2 3 dB power splitters …

Low-insertion-loss and power-efficient 32× 32 silicon photonics switch with extremely high-Δ silica PLC connector

K Suzuki, R Konoike, J Hasegawa, S Suda… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We fabricate a 32× 32 silicon photonics switch on a 300-mm silicon-on-insulator wafer by
using our complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor pilot line equipped with an immersion …