Title :
A silicon photonic chip-scale AWGR switch for high performance computing systems
Author :
Runxiang Yu ; Cheung, Stephane ; Yuliang Li ; Okamoto, K. ; Proietti, Roberto ; Yoo, S.J.B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper demonstrates a silicon-photonic AWGR-based optical switch for HPC systems. Simulations show high throughput and low latency even at high input load. A fabricated silicon-photonic AWGR switch with 32 Tx/Rx pairs showed error-free performance.
Keywords :
arrayed waveguide gratings; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; network routing; silicon; Si; Tx/Rx pairs; error-free performance; high input load; high performance computing systems; high throughput; low latency; silicon photonic chip-scale AWGR switch; Computer architecture; Optical buffering; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Silicon photonics; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
