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

Integrated circuit technologies are enabling intelligent, chip-based, optical packet switch
matrices. Rapid real-time re-configurability at the photonic layer using integrated circuit …

Disaggregated racks comprise a dense cluster of separate pools of compute, memory and
storage blades, all inter-connected through an internal network within a single rack …

The rapid growth in the amount of data being transferred within data centres, combined with
the slowdown in Moore's Law, creates challenges for the future scalability of electronically …

We describe our experience building and deploying a demand-oblivious optically-switched
network based on the RotorNet and Opera architectures. We detail the design, manufacture …

This paper presents a 32 Gb/s non-return-to-zero optical link using 850-nm vertical-cavity
surface-emitting laser-based multi-mode optics with 14-nm bulk FinFET CMOS circuits. The …

Implementation of highly integrated optical receivers in CMOS promises low cost, but
combining high gain, low noise, high bandwidth, and low power in a CMOS transimpedance …

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2018 Bridging the Last Mile for Optical Switching in Data Centers Hitesh Ballani Paolo Costa …

Silicon photonic switches with integrated pin junctions can exhibit fast switching on the order
of nanoseconds, enabling prospective optical networks with very fast reconfiguration times …

This paper demonstrates a receiver (RX) for optical communications implemented in a 28-
nm digital bulk-CMOS technology. Compact bandwidth (BW)-enhancement methods, such …