Silicon-photonic clos networks for global on-chip communication

A Joshi, C Batten, YJ Kwon, S Beamer… - 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future manycore processors will require energy-efficient, high-throughput on-chip networks.
Silicon-photonics is a promising new interconnect technology which offers lower power …

Designing chip-level nanophotonic interconnection networks

C Batten, A Joshi, V Stojanovć, K Asanović - … Interconnect Architectures for …, 2013 - Springer
Technology scaling will soon enable high-performance processors with hundreds of cores
integrated onto a single die, but the success of such systems could be limited by the …

[HTML][HTML] Design, fabrication, and metrology of 10× 100 multi-planar integrated photonic routing manifolds for neural networks

J Chiles, SM Buckley, SW Nam, RP Mirin… - APL Photonics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We design, fabricate, and characterize integrated photonic routing manifolds with 10 inputs
and 100 outputs using two vertically integrated planes of silicon nitride waveguides. We …

A generic optical router design for photonic network-on-chips

X Tan, M Yang, L Zhang, Y Jiang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic network-on-chip (NoC) architectures are emerging as a new paradigm to
interconnect a large number of processing cores at chip level, meeting the pressing demand …

Universal method for constructing N-port non-blocking optical router based on 2× 2 optical switch for photonic networks-on-chip

Q Chen, F Zhang, R Ji, L Zhang, L Yang - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We propose a universal method for constructing N-port non-blocking optical router for
photonic networks-on-chip, in which all microring (MR) optical switches or Mach-Zehnder …

Exploring the design of 64-and 256-core power efficient nanophotonic interconnect

R Morris, AK Kodi - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-performance and low-power network-on-chips (NoCs) will be required to support the
increasing number of cores in future chip multiprocessors. In this paper, we propose a …

Four-port silicon multi-wavelength optical router for photonic networks-on-chip

T Hu, H Shao, L Yang, C Xu, M Yang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We design and fabricate a four-port wavelength-selective optical router on silicon-on-
insulator wafer for photonic networks-on-chip. The router consists of four basic operation …

Silicon dual-ring modulator

Q Xu* - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
A silicon electro-optic modulator based on coupled microring resonators is proposed. The
dual-ring modulator has wide optical bandwidth, high extinction ratio and low insertion loss …

Microring resonator-based optical router for photonic networks-on-chip

Z Yu, Q Zhang, X Jin, J Zhao, H Baghsiahi… - Quantum …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the design and analysis of a non-blocking microring resonator-based optical
switched router, which can be used as a switch node to construct a large photonic routing …

Wavelength-selective switching using double-ring resonators coupled by a three-waveguide directional coupler

L Zhou, R Soref, J Chen - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A novel design of a two-bus coupled-rings 2× 2 switch with inter-ring coupling enabled by a
three-waveguide (3w) directional coupler is proposed. The device is analyzed using a …