Title :
Broadband Operation of Nanophotonic Router for Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip
Author :
Biberman, Aleksandr ; Lee, Benjamin G. ; Sherwood-Droz, Nicolás ; Lipson, Michal ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
fDate :
6/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A nonblocking four-port bidirectional multiwavelength message router for use in photonic network-on-chip (NoC) architectures implementing two-dimensional mesh or torus topologies is fully characterized with bit-error-rate measurements and eye diagrams using three wavelength-parallel 10-Gb/s channels. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of using this advanced switching subsystem within dynamically routed multiwavelength photonic NoCs.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; error statistics; integrated optics; nanophotonics; network-on-chip; optical communication equipment; photonic switching systems; silicon; telecommunication network routing; 2D mesh; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit-error-rate measurements; broadband operation; eye diagrams; multiwavelength photonic NoCs; nanophotonic router; nonblocking four-port bidirectional multiwavelength message router; silicon photonic networks-on-chip; switching subsystem; torus topologies; Multiprocessor interconnection; optical resonators; optical switches; photonic switching systems; wavelength-division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2010.2047850
