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 …

Review of silicon photonics foundry efforts

AEJ Lim, J Song, Q Fang, C Li, X Tu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics have progressed to a point where the next step for commercialization
depends on the accessibility of manufacturing foundries. The implementation of a fabless …

Photon-trapping microstructures enable high-speed high-efficiency silicon photodiodes

Y Gao, H Cansizoglu, KG Polat, S Ghandiparsi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
High-speed, high-efficiency photodetectors play an important role in optical communication
links that are increasingly being used in data centres to handle higher volumes of data traffic …

SiP-ML: high-bandwidth optical network interconnects for machine learning training

M Khani, M Ghobadi, M Alizadeh, Z Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes optical network interconnects as a key enabler for building high-
bandwidth ML training clusters with strong scaling properties. Our design, called SiP-ML …

Heteroepitaxy and selective area heteroepitaxy for silicon photonics

S Lourdudoss - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
This article reviews the major achievements in recent years on heteroepitaxy and selective
area heteroepitaxy that are relevant to silicon photonics. Material aspects are given due …

Silicon photonic integration platform—have we found the sweet spot?

DX Xu, JH Schmid, GT Reed… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current trend in silicon photonics towards higher levels of integration as well as the
model of using CMOS foundries for fabrication are leading to a need for standardization of …

Metal additive manufacturing: cost competitive beyond low volumes

RE Laureijs, JB Roca, SP Narra… - Journal of …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Additive manufacturing (AM) is increasingly of interest for commercial and military
applications due to its potential to create novel geometries with increased performance. For …

Programmable photonics: An opportunity for an accessible large-volume PIC ecosystem

W Bogaerts, A Rahim - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We look at the opportunities presented by the new concepts of generic programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PIC) to deploy photonics on a larger scale. Programmable PICs …

Hybrid silicon photonic circuits and transceiver for 50 Gb/s NRZ transmission over single-mode fiber

G Denoyer, C Cole, A Santipo, R Russo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 50 Gb/s per lane hybrid BiCMOS and silicon photonic integrated
circuit for use in fiber optic communications. Fine pitch copper pillars are used to integrate …

[HTML][HTML] The transition to electrified vehicles: Evaluating the labor demand of manufacturing conventional versus battery electric vehicle powertrains

T Cotterman, ERH Fuchs, KS Whitefoot, C Combemale - Energy Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The shift from traditional internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) to electric vehicles
(EVs) has raised concerns about displacement of automotive manufacturing labor. Prior …