Optics in computing: From photonic network-on-chip to chip-to-chip interconnects and disintegrated architectures

T Alexoudi, N Terzenidis, S Pitris… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following a decade of radical advances in the areas of integrated photonics and computing
architectures, we discuss the use of optics in the current computing landscape attempting to …

10 Gb/s optical random access memory (RAM) cell

A Tsakyridis, T Alexoudi, A Miliou, N Pleros… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Optical random access memories (RAMs) have been conceived as high-bandwidth
alternatives of their electronic counterparts, raising expectations for ultra-fast operation that …

16-bit (4× 4) optical random access memory (RAM) bank

C Pappas, T Moschos, T Alexoudi… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the past years, the limited access-times and memory bandwidth in electronic random-
access memory (RAM) has triggered a concerted research effort towards deploying optical …

WDM-enabled optical RAM at 5 Gb/s using a monolithic InP flip-flop chip

S Pitris, C Vagionas, T Tekin, R Broeke… - IEEE Photonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical static random access memory (RAM) cell
using a novel monolithic InP set-reset flip-flop (FF) chip and a single hybridly integrated …

An all-optical address look-up table using optical CAM and optical RAM banks

T Moschos, S Simos, C Vagionas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the experimental demonstration of a
complete all-optical 2-bit Address Look-Up (AL) table that performs address matching and …

Optical RAM row with 20 Gb/s optical word read/write

T Alexoudi, C Pappas, T Moschos… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
During the past years, optical memories have emerged as the main way to enable fast
access times and increased memory bandwidth in synergy with optical interconnections …

All-optical 10Gb/s ternary-CAM cell for routing look-up table applications

G Mourgias-Alexandris, C Vagionas, A Tsakyridis… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate the first all-optical Ternary-Content Addressable Memory (T-
CAM) cell that operates at 10Gb/s and comprises two monolithically integrated InP Flip …

An all-passive Si3N4 optical row decoder circuit for addressable optical RAM memories

S Simos, T Moschos, K Fotiadis… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work we experimentally demonstrate a Si 3 N 4 photonic integrated circuit which
offers row decoding and RAM addressing functionalities. The passive integrated structure …

Caching with light: A 16-bit capacity optical cache memory prototype

C Pappas, T Moschos, T Alexoudi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need of faster access-times and increased memory bandwidths has triggered a
concerted research effort towards deploying optical memory circuitry, targeting at the apex of …

Integrated optical content addressable memories (CAM) and optical random access memories (RAM) for ultra-fast address look-up operations

C Vagionas, P Maniotis, S Pitris, A Miliou, N Pleros - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Electronic Content Addressable Memories (CAM) implement Address Look-Up (AL) table
functionalities of network routers; however, they typically operate in the MHz regime, turning …