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 …

A Review of Silicon‐Based Integrated Optical Switches

X Chen, J Lin, K Wang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, silicon‐integrated optical circuits have attracted intensive interests, thanks to the
compatibility with the complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) technology that …

Photonic switching in high performance datacenters

Q Cheng, S Rumley, M Bahadori, K Bergman - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Photonic switches are increasingly considered for insertion in high performance datacenter
architectures to meet the growing performance demands of interconnection networks. We …

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 …

Silicon photonic switch fabrics: Technology and architecture

BG Lee, N Dupuis - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic switching technologies show potential for transforming communication networks
across diverse markets from long-haul to short-reach distance scales due to their large …

State of the art and perspectives on silicon photonic switches

X Tu, C Song, T Huang, Z Chen, H Fu - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, silicon photonic switches are increasingly believed to be potential
candidates for replacing the electrical switches in the applications of telecommunication …

Architecture and devices for silicon photonic switching in wavelength, polarization and mode

Y Zhang, R Zhang, Q Zhu, Y Yuan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Switching can be performed with multiple physical dimensions of an optical signal.
Previously optical switching was mainly focused in the wavelength domain. In this paper we …

Silicon photonics for extreme scale systems

Y Shen, X Meng, Q Cheng, S Rumley… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
High-performance systems are increasingly bottlenecked by the growing energy and
communications costs of interconnecting numerous compute and memory resources …

WDM-compatible multimode optical switching system-on-chip

H Jia, S Yang, T Zhou, S Shao, X Fu, L Zhang… - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
The development of optical interconnect techniques greatly expands the communication
bandwidth and decreases the power consumption at the same time. It provides a …

III–V/Si hybrid MOS optical phase shifter for Si photonic integrated circuits

M Takenaka, JH Han, F Boeuf, JK Park, Q Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel optical phase modulation scheme on a Si photonic platform that uses a
III–V/Si hybrid metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) capacitor formed by bonding an n-type …