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 …

Jupiter evolving: transforming google's datacenter network via optical circuit switches and software-defined networking

L Poutievski, O Mashayekhi, J Ong, A Singh… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a decade of evolution and production experience with Jupiter datacenter
network fabrics. In this period Jupiter has delivered 5x higher speed and capacity, 30 …

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 …

A comparative review of MEMS-based optical cross-connects for all-optical networks from the past to the present day

M Stepanovsky - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based cross-connects are widely used for all-
optical switching in recent optical networks. This paper provides a brief overview of various …

Large-scale silicon photonic switches with movable directional couplers

S Han, TJ Seok, N Quack, BW Yoo, MC Wu - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Fast optical circuit switches (OCSs) with high port count offer reconfigurable bandwidth in
optical networks and have the potential to significantly increase the performance and …

Single-crystalline silicon micromirrors actuated by self-aligned vertical electrostatic combdrives with piston-motion and rotation capability

D Lee, U Krishnamoorthy, K Yu, O Solgaard - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2004 - Elsevier
We present micromirrors actuated by self-aligned, high aspect ratio, vertical electrostatic
combdrives with multi-level electrical isolation that allows bi-directional and dual-mode …

Optical MEMS for lightwave communication

MC Wu, O Solgaard, JE Ford - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The intensive investment in optical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in the last
decade has led to many successful components that satisfy the requirements of lightwave …

Lightwave fabrics: at-scale optical circuit switching for datacenter and machine learning systems

H Liu, R Urata, K Yasumura, X Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We describe our experience developing what we believe to be the world's first large-scale
production deployments of lightwave fabrics used for both datacenter networking and …

Next generation routers

HJ Chao - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the broadband access technologies, such as DSL, cable modem, and gigabit Ethernet,
are providing affordable broadband solutions to the Internet from home and the enterprise, it …

1100 x 1100 port MEMS-based optical crossconnect with 4-dB maximum loss

J Kim, CJ Nuzman, B Kumar… - IEEE Photonics …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a microelectromechanical systems-based beam steering optical crossconnect
switch core with port count exceeding 1100, featuring mean fiber-to-fiber insertion loss of 2.1 …