Driven primarily by cloud service and data-center applications, short-reach optical
communication has become a key market segment and growing research area in recent …

An explosive increase in volume of global network and data center traffic requires an
interconnection scheme with low cost, high energy efficiency, and high bandwidth capacity …

Silicon photonics will provide low-cost, high-bandwidth and compact optical components for
a wide range of applications in optical communications and interconnects. One of the cited …

Disaggregated rack-scale data centers have been proposed as the only promising avenue
to break the barrier of the fixed CPU-to-memory proportionality caused by main-tray direct …

Optical interconnect is a potential solution to attain the large bandwidth on-chip
communications needed in high-performance computers in a low-power and low-cost …

First Real-Time 400G PAM-4 Demonstration for Inter-Data Center Transmission over 100 km of
SSMF at 1550 nm Page 1 W1K.5.pdf OFC 2016 © OSA 2016 First Real-Time 400G PAM-4 …

Disaggregated data centers (DCs) can offer high flexibility for resource allocation; hence,
their resource utilization can be significantly improved. However, communications between …

A silicon photonic filter with an ultra-large free spectral range (FSR) is proposed and
demonstrated by introducing high-order adiabatic elliptical-microrings (AEMs) with bent …

Recently, there is increasing interest in utilizing Stokes vector receiver, which is a direct-
detection technique with the capability to digitally track the polarization changes in fibers …

Ultra-compact silicon photonic filters with box-like responses and high extinction ratios are
proposed and demonstrated by introducing tenth-order adiabatic elliptical-microrings …