Session 22 overview: High-speed optical links: Wireline subcommittee

Cloud computing is not in the clouds but in very real data centers with significant and growing networking and data communication needs. Data center scale computing demands interconnect solutions that support very high data-rates with ultra-low-power consumption at distances of 10m and greater. Because electrical links cannot meet the distance and density targets demanded by this application, demand for innovations in low-cost optical links to enable high-data-rate power-efficient solutions is strong. This session´s nine papers highlight advances in hybrid integrated silicon photonics and electronics supporting rates of 25Gb/s and beyond, report a complete link for WDM, and present enhanced opto-electronic building blocks. The remaining papers describe high-voltage/high-speed drivers for ring and MZM modulators, low-power optical receivers, and clocking techniques for parallel optical links.