• DocumentCode
    1771569
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989499