Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

A review of silicon‐based integrated optical switches

X Chen, J Lin, K Wang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, silicon‐integrated optical circuits have attracted intensive interests, thanks to the
compatibility with the complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS) technology that …

Silicon photonics for high-capacity data communications

Y Shi, Y Zhang, Y Wan, Y Yu, Y Zhang, X Hu… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical modulators, photodetectors,(de) multiplexers, and heterogeneously
integrated lasers based on silicon optical platforms have been verified. The performance of …

Sirius: A flat datacenter network with nanosecond optical switching

H Ballani, P Costa, R Behrendt, D Cletheroe… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The increasing gap between the growth of datacenter traffic and electrical switch capacity is
expected to worsen due to the slowdown of Moore's law, motivating the need for a new …

Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, M Glick, S Rumley, K Bergman - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

Inverse-designed non-reciprocal pulse router for chip-based LiDAR

KY Yang, J Skarda, M Cotrufo, A Dutt, GH Ahn… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Non-reciprocal devices such as isolators and circulators are key enabling technologies for
communication systems, both at microwave and optical frequencies. Although non …

Low-loss and polarization insensitive 32× 4 optical switch for ROADM applications

X Zhu, X Wang, Y Huang, L Wu, C Zhao… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

SiP-ML: high-bandwidth optical network interconnects for machine learning training

M Khani, M Ghobadi, M Alizadeh, Z Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes optical network interconnects as a key enabler for building high-
bandwidth ML training clusters with strong scaling properties. Our design, called SiP-ML …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling photonic integrated circuits with InP technology: A perspective

Y Wang, Y Jiao, K Williams - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Wafer-scale silicon photonic switches beyond die size limit

TJ Seok, K Kwon, J Henriksson, J Luo, MC Wu - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
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 …