Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, M Glick, S Rumley, K Bergman - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

Graphene-based integrated photonics for next-generation datacom and telecom

M Romagnoli, V Sorianello, M Midrio… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give
several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene …

Large-scale broadband digital silicon photonic switches with vertical adiabatic couplers

TJ Seok, N Quack, S Han, RS Muller, MC Wu - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Large-scale photonic switches are essential devices for energy-and cost-efficient optical
communication networks in cloud and data-intensive computing. Silicon photonics is an …

16× 16 non-blocking silicon optical switch based on electro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometers

L Lu, S Zhao, L Zhou, D Li, Z Li, M Wang, X Li… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate a 16× 16 non-blocking optical switch fabric with a footprint
of 10.7× 4.4 mm^ 2. The switch fabric is composed of 56 2× 2 silicon Mach-Zehnder …

Ultra-compact 32× 32 strictly-non-blocking Si-wire optical switch with fan-out LGA interposer

K Tanizawa, K Suzuki, M Toyama, M Ohtsuka… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a 32× 32 path-independent-insertion-loss optical path switch that integrates
1024 thermooptic Mach-Zehnder switches and 961 intersections on a small, 11× 25 mm^ 2 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

60 dB high-extinction auto-configured Mach–Zehnder interferometer

CM Wilkes, X Qiang, J Wang, R Santagati, S Paesani… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Imperfections in integrated photonics manufacturing have a detrimental effect on the
maximal achievable visibility in interferometric architectures. These limits have profound …

Scaling silicon photonic switch fabrics for data center interconnection networks

D Nikolova, S Rumley, D Calhoun, Q Li, R Hendry… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
With the rapidly increasing aggregate bandwidth requirements of data centers there is a
growing interest in the insertion of optically interconnected networks with high-radix …