Silicon photonics for exascale systems

S Rumley, D Nikolova, R Hendry, Q Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
With the extraordinary growth in parallelism at all system scales driven by multicore
architectures, computing performance is increasingly determined by how efficiently high …

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 …

Modular architecture for fully non-blocking silicon photonic switch fabric

D Nikolova, DM Calhoun, Y Liu, S Rumley… - Microsystems & …, 2017 - nature.com
Integrated photonics offers the possibility of compact, low energy, bandwidth-dense
interconnects for large port count spatial optical switches, facilitating flexible and energy …

Software-defined control-plane for wavelength selective unicast and multicast of optical data in a silicon photonic platform

A Gazman, C Browning, M Bahadori, Z Zhu… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a programmable control-plane based on field programmable gate array
(FPGA) with a power-efficient algorithm for optical unicast, multicast, and broadcast …

Low-overhead thermally resilient optical network-on-chip architecture

M Tinati, S Koohi, S Hessabi - Nano Communication Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Integrated silicon photonic networks have attracted a lot of attention in the recent decades
due to their potentials for low-power and high-bandwidth communications. However, these …

Optical switching based small-world data center network

D Zhang, H Guo, T Yang, J Wu - Computer Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
Redesigning data center networks, particularly taking advantages of optical switching
technologies to reduce cost-per-bandwidth and energy consumption, has spawned interests …

Programmable wavelength locking and routing in a silicon-photonic interconnection network implementation

DM Calhoun, Q Li, C Browning, NC Abrams… - Optical Fiber …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A programmable control system for wavelength locking WDM channels on microring arrays
is used to demonstrate arbitrary demultiplexing and selection of fast switchable …