Lightwave communications is a necessity for the information age. Optical links provide
enormous bandwidth, and the optical fiber is the only medium that can meet the modern …

Optical wireless communication (OWC) enables wireless connectivity using infrared, visible
or ultraviolet bands. With its powerful features such as high bandwidth, low cost and …

Lithium niobate (LN), spurred by its success for fiber-optic communications, has remained
the material of choice for high-performance electrooptic (EO) modulators. The past decade …

The rapid development of cloud computing in recent years has deeply affected our lifestyles.
As core infrastructures of cloud computing, data centers have gained widespread attention …

Various types of optical fiber networks have been conceived, designed, and built to satisfy a
wide range of transmission capacities and speeds. The link lengths between users can vary …

In this paper, we describe Apollo, to the best of our knowledge, the world's first large-scale
production deployment of optical circuit switches (OCSes) for datacenter networking. We will …

Abstract Network-on-Chip (NoC) is one of the basic chip designs with advantages and
challenges especially when the number of transistors increases and the data transfer rate …

In this paper, we present Datacenter Time Protocol (DTP), a clock synchronization protocol
that does not use packets at all, but is able to achieve nanosecond precision. In essence …

With the continuously growing popularity of cloud services, the traffic volume inside the data
centers is dramatically increasing. As a result, a scalable and efficient infrastructure for data …

Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling establishes a framework for strategic decision-
makers to facilitate the development of cloud data centers. Just as building a house requires …