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 …

[HTML][HTML] High-bandwidth density silicon photonic resonators for energy-efficient optical interconnects

A Novick, A James, LY Dai, Z Wu, A Rizzo… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The growth of artificial intelligence applications demands ever larger and more complex
deep learning models, dominating today's—and tomorrow's—data center and high …

Flexible and scalable optical interconnects for data centers: Trends and challenges

Y Lu, H Gu - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging applications such as machine learning place higher demands on the flexibility
and scalability of data center networks. On one hand, it is difficult for the fixed network …

Multi-FSR silicon photonic Flex-LIONS module for bandwidth-reconfigurable all-to-all optical interconnects

X Xiao, R Proietti, G Liu, H Lu, Y Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes and experimentally demonstrates the first bandwidth-reconfigurable all-
to-all optical interconnects using a multi-Free-Spectral-Ranges (FSR) integrated 8× 8 SiPh …

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 …

System demonstration of nanosecond wavelength switching with burst-mode PAM4 transceiver

K Shi, S Lange, I Haller, D Cletheroe… - 45th European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
System Demonstration of Nanosecond Wavelength Switching with Burst-mode PAM4
Transceiver Page 1 1 System Demonstration of Nanosecond Wavelength Switching with …

Flexible Data Rate Allocation Using Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) in a Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM) Optical Power Splitter for System-on-Chip …

YZ Lin, CW Chow, TW Yu, YH Jian, TY Hung, JW Chen… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
We put forward and demonstrate a silicon photonics (SiPh)-based mode division
multiplexed (MDM) optical power splitter that supports transverse-electric (TE) single-mode …

Nanosecond tunable laser for the all-optical switching network

Z Yin, Q Sun, Z Liu, Y Wang, L Wang, Y Zhang… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The optically switched network can offset the increasing gap between datacenter traffic
growth and electrical switch capacity due to the slowdown of Moore's law. Ultra-high-speed …

1× N (N= 2, 8) silicon selector switch for prospective technologies at the 2 μm waveband

JXB Sia, X Li, Z Qiao, X Guo, J Zhou… - IEEE Photonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The 2 waveband, specifically near, is an imperative resource that could possibly be
exploited in future communications systems. This is due to the promising infrastructural …

[HTML][HTML] Folded 15-channel arrayed waveguide gratings on silicon nitride platform with loop reflector

H Hu, Q Fang, S Wang, X Zhang, X Ma, M Gu, L Jia… - Optics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4) arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) have been widely
used for dense wavelength division multiplexing systems because of their low loss and …