Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

Optical phase shifters constitute the fundamental building blocks that enable programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PICs)—the cornerstone of on-chip classical and quantum …

Integrated switches play a crucial role in the development of reconfigurable optical add-drop
multiplexers (ROADMs) that have greater flexibility and compactness, ultimately leading to …

The need for imaging and ranging in robotics has brought LiDAR (light detection and
ranging) to the forefront of consumer technology. Among various approaches, time-of-flight …

Optical memristive switches can be used as optical latching switches in which the switching
state is changed only by applying an electrical Write/Erase pulse and maintained without an …

Photonic switches are increasingly considered for insertion in high performance datacenter
architectures to meet the growing performance demands of interconnection networks. We …

The number of photonic components integrated into the same circuit is approaching one
million, but so far, this has been without the large-scale integration of active components …

Fast optical switches have been proposed as a promising alternative to enable continual
scaling of data centers with increasing size and data rates. Silicon photonics is a compelling …

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 …