Multimode silicon photonics

C Li, D Liu, D Dai - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Multimode silicon photonics is attracting more and more attention because the introduction
of higher-order modes makes it possible to increase the channel number for data …

A survey on optical network-on-chip architectures

S Werner, J Navaridas, M Luján - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2017 - dl.acm.org
Optical on-chip data transmission enabled by silicon photonics (SiP) is widely considered a
key technology to overcome the bandwidth and energy limitations of electrical interconnects …

DSENT-a tool connecting emerging photonics with electronics for opto-electronic networks-on-chip modeling

C Sun, CHO Chen, G Kurian, L Wei… - 2012 IEEE/ACM …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rise of many-core chips that require substantial bandwidth from the network on chip
(NoC), integrated photonic links have been investigated as a promising alternative to …

An electro-photonic system for accelerating deep neural networks

C Demirkiran, F Eris, G Wang, J Elmhurst… - ACM Journal on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The number of parameters in deep neural networks (DNNs) is scaling at about 5× the rate of
Moore's Law. To sustain this growth, photonic computing is a promising avenue, as it …

A 45 nm CMOS-SOI monolithic photonics platform with bit-statistics-based resonant microring thermal tuning

C Sun, M Wade, M Georgas, S Lin… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The microring resonator is critical for dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) chip-
to-chip optical I/O, enabling modulation and channel selection at the-scale suitable for a …

Optics in computing: From photonic network-on-chip to chip-to-chip interconnects and disintegrated architectures

T Alexoudi, N Terzenidis, S Pitris… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following a decade of radical advances in the areas of integrated photonics and computing
architectures, we discuss the use of optics in the current computing landscape attempting to …

General architectures for on-chip optical space and mode switching

L Yang, T Zhou, H Jia, S Yang, J Ding, X Fu, L Zhang - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The optical switches for single-mode operation cannot be directly utilized in optical
communication and interconnect systems adopting mode-division multiplexing. In this paper …

Flexishare: Channel sharing for an energy-efficient nanophotonic crossbar

Y Pan, J Kim, G Memik - HPCA-16 2010 The Sixteenth …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-chip network is becoming critical to the scalability of future many-core architectures.
Recently, nanophotonics has been proposed for on-chip networks because of its low latency …

Five-port optical router for photonic networks-on-chip

R Ji, L Yang, L Zhang, Y Tian, J Ding, H Chen, Y Lu… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate a spatially non-blocking five-port optical router, which is
based on microring resonators tuned through the thermo-optic effect. The characteristics of …

Phastlane: a rapid transit optical routing network

MJ Cianchetti, JC Kerekes, DH Albonesi - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Tens and eventually hundreds of processing cores are projected to be integrated onto future
microprocessors, making the global interconnect a key component to achieving scalable …