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 integrated nanophotonic devices for on-chip multi-mode interconnects

H Xu, D Dai, Y Shi - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) technology has drawn tremendous attention for its ability
to expand the link capacity within a single-wavelength carrier, paving the way for large-scale …

Programmable phase-change metasurfaces on waveguides for multimode photonic convolutional neural network

C Wu, H Yu, S Lee, R Peng, I Takeuchi, M Li - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Neuromorphic photonics has recently emerged as a promising hardware accelerator, with
significant potential speed and energy advantages over digital electronics for machine …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Harnessing optoelectronic noises in a photonic generative network

C Wu, X Yang, H Yu, R Peng, I Takeuchi, Y Chen… - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Integrated optoelectronics is emerging as a promising platform of neural network
accelerator, which affords efficient in-memory computing and high bandwidth …

Wavelength-selective 2  ×  2 optical switch based on a Ge2Sb2Te5-assisted microring

C Zhang, M Zhang, Y **e, Y Shi, R Kumar… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A novel wavelength-selective 2× 2 optical switch based on a Ge_2Sb_2Te_5 (GST)-assisted
microring-resonator (MRR) is proposed. The present GST-assisted MRR consists of two …

High-performance photonic integrated circuits on silicon

R Helkey, AAM Saleh, J Buckwalter… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heterogeneous integration of III–V semiconductor photonics combined with silicon foundry
technology enables low-cost, high-performance photonic integrated circuits. Highly reliable …

Scalable microring-based silicon Clos switch fabric with switch-and-select stages

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, YH Hung… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and analyze a scalable microring-based Clos switch fabric architecture
constructed with switch-and-select switching stages. A silicon 4× 4 building block that was …

Silicon photonic wavelength cross-connect with integrated MEMS switching

TJ Seok, J Luo, Z Huang, K Kwon, J Henriksson… - APL Photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We report on monolithically integrated wavelength cross-connects (WXCs) on an enhanced
silicon photonic platform with integrated micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) …

Ultra-low-loss multi-layer 8× 8 microring optical switch

X Li, W Gao, L Lu, J Chen, L Zhou - Photonics Research, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Microring-based optical switches are promising for wavelength-selective switching with the
merits of compact size and low power consumption. However, the large insertion loss, the …