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

Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give
several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene …

Large-scale photonic switches are essential devices for energy-and cost-efficient optical
communication networks in cloud and data-intensive computing. Silicon photonics is an …

We experimentally demonstrate a 16× 16 non-blocking optical switch fabric with a footprint
of 10.7× 4.4 mm^ 2. The switch fabric is composed of 56 2× 2 silicon Mach-Zehnder …

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 …

We demonstrate a 32× 32 path-independent-insertion-loss optical path switch that integrates
1024 thermooptic Mach-Zehnder switches and 961 intersections on a small, 11× 25 mm^ 2 …

Fast optical circuit switches (OCSs) with high port count offer reconfigurable bandwidth in
optical networks and have the potential to significantly increase the performance and …

Imperfections in integrated photonics manufacturing have a detrimental effect on the
maximal achievable visibility in interferometric architectures. These limits have profound …

Photonic switching technologies show potential for transforming communication networks
across diverse markets from long-haul to short-reach distance scales due to their large …

With the extraordinary growth in parallelism at all system scales driven by multicore
architectures, computing performance is increasingly determined by how efficiently high …