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 …

[HTML][HTML] Demonstration of scalable microring weight bank control for large-scale photonic integrated circuits

C Huang, S Bilodeau, T Ferreira de Lima, AN Tait… - APL Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Microring resonators (MRRs) are reconfigurable optical elements ubiquitous in photonic
integrated circuits. Owing to its high sensitivity, MRR control is very challenging, especially …

Canceling thermal cross-talk effects in photonic integrated circuits

M Milanizadeh, D Aguiar, A Melloni… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Thermal actuators are among the most consolidated and widespread devices for the active
control of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). As a main drawback, mutual thermal crosstalk …

Silicon photonics codesign for deep learning

Q Cheng, J Kwon, M Glick, M Bahadori… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning is revolutionizing many aspects of our society, addressing a wide variety of
decision-making tasks, from image classification to autonomous vehicle control. Matrix …

Circuit-level convergence of electronics and photonics: basic concepts and recent advances

M Tan, Y Wang, KX Wang, Y Yu, X Zhang - Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2022 - Springer
Integrated photonics is widely regarded as an important post-Moore's law research direction.
However, it suffers from intrinsic limitations, such as lack of control and satisfactory photonic …

Silicon photonic 2.5 D multi-chip module transceiver for high-performance data centers

NC Abrams, Q Cheng, M Glick, M Jezzini… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Widespread adoption of silicon photonics into datacenters requires that the integration of the
driving electronics with the photonics be an essential component of transceiver …

Self-calibrating microring synapse with dual-wavelength synchronization

J Cheng, Z He, Y Guo, B Wu, H Zhou, T Chen… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
As a resonator-based optical hardware in analog optical computing, a microring synapse
can be straightforwardly configured to simulate the connection weights between neurons …

Multi-wavelength selective crossbar switch

ASP Khope, M Saeidi, R Yu, X Wu, AM Netherton… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Here we demonstrate an 8x4 multi-wavelength selective ring resonator based crossbar
switch matrix implemented in a 220-nm silicon photonics foundry for interconnecting …

Bandwidth steering in HPC using silicon nanophotonics

G Michelogiannakis, Y Shen, MY Teh, X Meng… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As bytes-per-FLOP ratios continue to decline, communication is becoming a bottleneck for
performance scaling. This paper describes bandwidth steering in HPC using emerging …

Intra-datacenter interconnects with a serialized silicon optical frequency comb modulator

D Kong, H Xin, K Kim, Y Liu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Powerful warehouse-scale datacenters form the fabric of cloud computing. Efficient
computing requires intra-datacenter interconnects with large capacity, low energy …