• DocumentCode
    108765
  • Title

    Electronic and photonic integrated circuits for fast data center optical circuit switches

  • Author

    Chen, Luo-nan ; Sohdi, A. ; Bowers, John E. ; Theogarajan, Luke ; Roth, Joseph ; Fish, Gregory

  • Volume
    51
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Sep-13
  • Firstpage
    53
  • Lastpage
    59
  • Abstract
    This article surveys recent work in optical switching technologies and presents a fast optical circuit switch that intimately integrates the control electrics at the chip level using a novel wafer-scale heterogeneous integration technique.
  • Keywords
    circuit switching; computer centres; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated optoelectronics; optical interconnections; photonic switching systems; wafer-scale integration; chip level; data center optical circuit switch; electronic integrated circuit; photonic integrated circuit; wafer scale heterogeneous integration technique; Data centers; Integrated optics; Optical buffering; Optical device fabrication; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0163-6804
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCOM.2013.6588650
  • Filename
    6588650