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 …

Silicon photonics for extreme scale systems

Y Shen, X Meng, Q Cheng, S Rumley… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
High-performance systems are increasingly bottlenecked by the growing energy and
communications costs of interconnecting numerous compute and memory resources …

Silicon photonics codesign for deep learning

Q Cheng, J Kwon, M Glick, M Bahadori… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning is revolutionizing many aspects of our society, addressing a wide variety of
decision-making tasks, from image classification to autonomous vehicle control. Matrix …

Universal design of waveguide bends in silicon-on-insulator photonics platform

M Bahadori, M Nikdast, Q Cheng… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We propose a universal and analytic step-by-step method to calculate the optimal 90° and
180° waveguide bends (L-bends and U-bends) in silicon-on-insulator photonics platform …

Design space exploration of microring resonators in silicon photonic interconnects: impact of the ring curvature

M Bahadori, M Nikdast, S Rumley, LY Dai… - Journal of lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A detailed analysis of fundamental tradeoffs between ring radius and coupling gap size is
presented to draw realistic borders of the possible design space for microring resonators …

Optical interconnects for extreme scale computing systems

S Rumley, M Bahadori, R Polster, SD Hammond… - Parallel Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
Large-scale high performance computing is permeating nearly every corner of modern
applications spanning from scientific research and business operations, to medical …

Silicon photonic microring resonators: A comprehensive design-space exploration and optimization under fabrication-process variations

A Mirza, F Sunny, P Walsh, K Hassan… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonic microring resonators (MRRs) offer many advantages (eg, compactness)
and are often considered as the fundamental building block in optical interconnects and …

Flexfly: Enabling a reconfigurable dragonfly through silicon photonics

K Wen, P Samadi, S Rumley, CP Chen… - SC'16: Proceedings …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Dragonfly topology provides low-diameter connectivity for high-performance computing
with all-to-all global links at the inter-group level. Our traffic matrix characterization of various …

Thermal rectification of integrated microheaters for microring resonators in silicon photonics platform

M Bahadori, A Gazman, N Janosik… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Heating elements are used to tune the optical properties of silicon photonic devices, to
stabilize operating temperatures, and to compensate for fabrication variations. In this paper …

LoCI: An analysis of the impact of optical loss and crosstalk noise in integrated silicon-photonic neural networks

A Shafiee, S Banerjee, K Chakrabarty… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Compared to electronic accelerators, integrated silicon-photonic neural networks (SP-NNs)
promise higher speed and energy efficiency for emerging artificial-intelligence applications …