With the deep physical-layer programmability enabled by software-defined networking
(SDN), it is now feasible to realize optical data center transceivers that adapt their …

Optical interconnect can achieve a substantial increase in the number of nodes and
switching capability for data centers, by virtue of their low power consumption and high …

Due to the lack of optical buffer, high packer loss caused by packet contention is one of the
main challenges for the optical switching data centers (DCs). Flow control (FC) protocol …

Modular optical switch architectures combining wavelength routing based on arrayed
waveguide grating (AWG) devices and multicasting based on star couplers hold promise for …

In this paper, a miniaturized 2× 2 electro-optic plasmonic Mach–Zehnder switch (MZS)
based on metal–polymer–silicon hybrid waveguide is presented. Adiabatic tapers are …

The ever-expanding growth of internet traffic enforces deployment of massive Data Center
Networks (DCNs) supporting high performance communications. Optical switching is being …

With the escalation of traffic-boosting applications, such as cloud computing, Internet of
Things and high definition streaming, traffic bandwidth growth in data centers (DCs) exceeds …

Programmable optical transmission based on software-defined networking (SDN) is being
considered as a promising solution for the fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks, data …

Modular optical switch architectures combining wavelength routing based on arrayed
waveguide grating (AWG) devices and multicasting based on star couplers hold promise for …

We propose a modular star-coupler-based switch architecture along with a scalable
multicast scheduling algorithm to enable all-optical multicasting among data center nodes …