DocumentCode
1772308
Title
Energy-efficient, digitally-driven “fat pipe” silicon photonic circuit switch in the UCSD MORDIA data-center network
Author
Aguinaldo, Ryan ; Forencich, Alex ; DeRose, Christopher ; Lentine, Anthony ; Trotter, Douglas C. ; Starbuck, Andrew ; Fainman, Yeshaiahu ; Porter, George ; Papen, George ; Mookherjea, Shayan
Author_Institution
Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
fYear
2014
fDate
8-13 June 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
Using a compact (0.03 mm^2) silicon photonic thermo-optic switch with five cascaded thermo-topic phase-shifters, we demonstrate low insertion loss, low power, microsecond-scale cross-bar switching of twenty wavelength channels, each carrying 10 Gbit/second data concurrently.
Keywords
computer centres; optical switches; thermo-optical devices; UCSD MORDIA data-center network; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cascaded thermotopic phase-shifters; fat pipe silicon photonic circuit switch; microsecond-scale cross-bar switching; silicon photonic thermo-optic switch; wavelength channels; Loss measurement; Optical interferometry; Optical sensors; Optical switches; Silicon photonics; Switching circuits;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
6989888
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