Prospects and challenges of photonic switching in data centers and computing systems

SJB Yoo - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Electro-optic modulation in integrated photonics

G Sinatkas, T Christopoulos, O Tsilipakos… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

Programmable photonic arrays based on microelectromechanical elements with femtowatt-level standby power consumption

DU Kim, YJ Park, DY Kim, Y Jeong, MG Lim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Programmable photonic integrated circuits offer exciting opportunities for optoelectronic
signal processing, computing and communications in a number of emerging applications in …

MOS capacitor-driven silicon modulators: a mini review and comparative analysis of modulation efficiency and optical loss

WC Hsu, B Zhou, AX Wang - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitor-driven silicon modulators have demonstrated
exceeding performance in driving voltage, energy efficiency, and bandwidth through …

Si microring resonator crossbar array for on-chip inference and training of the optical neural network

S Ohno, R Tang, K Toprasertpong, S Takagi… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Deep learning has been a powerful tool in various fields. Faced with the limits of the current
electronics platform, optical neural networks (ONNs) based on Si programmable photonic …

Femtojoule per MAC neuromorphic photonics: an energy and technology roadmap

AR Totović, G Dabos, N Passalis… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic artificial neural networks have garnered enormous attention due to their potential
to perform multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations at much higher clock rates and consuming …

Nonvolatile optical phase shift in ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide

K Taki, N Sekine, K Watanabe, Y Miyatake… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A nonvolatile optical phase shifter is a critical component for enabling the fabrication of
programmable photonic integrated circuits on a Si photonics platform, facilitating …

Ultra-low-power tuning in hybrid barium titanate–silicon nitride electro-optic devices on silicon

JE Ortmann, F Eltes, D Caimi, N Meier, AA Demkov… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
As the optical analogue to integrated electronics, integrated photonics has already found
widespread use in data centers in the form of optical interconnects. As global network traffic …

Demonstration of a 17× 25 Gb/s heterogeneous III-V/Si DWDM transmitter based on (de-) interleaved quantum dot optical frequency combs

S Cheung, Y Yuan, Y Peng, G Kurczveil… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss the design and demonstration of a space and dense wavelength division
multiplexed heterogeneous III-V/Si transmitter based on a single multi-wavelength quantum …

Energy efficient photonic memory based on electrically programmable embedded III-V/Si memristors: switches and filters

S Cheung, B Tossoun, Y Yuan, Y Peng, Y Hu… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Over the past few years, extensive work on optical neural networks has been investigated in
hopes of achieving orders of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency and compute …