Building many-core processor-to-DRAM networks with monolithic CMOS silicon photonics

C Batten, A Joshi, J Orcutt, A Khilo, B Moss… - IEEE Micro, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is a promising technology for addressing memory bandwidth limitations in
future many-core processors. This article first introduces a new monolithic silicon-photonic …

Computer systems based on silicon photonic interconnects

AV Krishnamoorthy, R Ho, X Zheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a computing microsystem that uniquely leverages the bandwidth, density, and
latency advantages of silicon photonic interconnect to enable highly compact …

Applications of optical microcavity resonators in analytical chemistry

JH Wade, RC Bailey - Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Optical resonator sensors are an emerging class of analytical technologies that use
recirculating light confined within a microcavity to sensitively measure the surrounding …

Silicon-photonic clos networks for global on-chip communication

A Joshi, C Batten, YJ Kwon, S Beamer… - 2009 3rd ACM/IEEE …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future manycore processors will require energy-efficient, high-throughput on-chip networks.
Silicon-photonics is a promising new interconnect technology which offers lower power …

Open foundry platform for high-performance electronic-photonic integration

JS Orcutt, B Moss, C Sun, J Leu, M Georgas… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents photonic devices with 3 dB/cm waveguide loss fabricated in an existing
commercial electronic 45 nm SOI-CMOS foundry process. By utilizing existing front-end …

Nanophotonic integration in state-of-the-art CMOS foundries

JS Orcutt, A Khilo, CW Holzwarth, MA Popović, H Li… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a monolithic photonic integration platform that leverages the existing state-
of-the-art CMOS foundry infrastructure. In our approach, proven XeF_2 post-processing …

Highly-efficient thermally-tuned resonant optical filters

JE Cunningham, I Shubin, X Zheng, T **uet… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate spectral tunability for microphotonic add-drop filters manufactured as ring
resonators in a commercial 130 nm SOI CMOS technology. The filters are provisioned with …

Automatic resonance alignment of high-order microring filters

JCC Mak, WD Sacher, T Xue… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic resonance alignment tuning is performed in high-order series coupled microring
filters using a feedback system. By inputting only a reference wavelength, the filter …

Re-architecting DRAM memory systems with monolithically integrated silicon photonics

S Beamer, C Sun, YJ Kwon, A Joshi, C Batten… - ACM SIGARCH …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The performance of future manycore processors will only scale with the number of integrated
cores if there is a corresponding increase in memory bandwidth. Projected scaling of …

Designing chip-level nanophotonic interconnection networks

C Batten, A Joshi, V Stojanovć, K Asanović - … Interconnect Architectures for …, 2012 - Springer
Technology scaling will soon enable high-performance processors with hundreds of cores
integrated onto a single die, but the success of such systems could be limited by the …