Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, M Glick, S Rumley, K Bergman - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

Silicon photonics for extreme scale systems

Y Shen, X Meng, Q Cheng, S Rumley… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
High-performance systems are increasingly bottlenecked by the growing energy and
communications costs of interconnecting numerous compute and memory resources …

Ultralow-crosstalk, strictly non-blocking microring-based optical switch

Q Cheng, LY Dai, NC Abrams, YH Hung… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We report on the first monolithically integrated microring-based optical switch in the switch-
and-select architecture. The switch fabric delivers strictly non-blocking connectivity while …

Scalable microring-based silicon Clos switch fabric with switch-and-select stages

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, YH Hung… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and analyze a scalable microring-based Clos switch fabric architecture
constructed with switch-and-select switching stages. A silicon 4× 4 building block that was …

Photonic-integrated circuits with non-planar topologies realized by 3D-printed waveguide overpasses

A Nesic, M Blaicher, T Hoose, A Hofmann… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Complex photonic-integrated circuits (PIC) may have strongly non-planar topologies that
require waveguide crossings (WGX) when realized in single-layer integration platforms. The …

Optical interconnection networks for high-performance systems

Q Cheng, M Glick, K Bergman - Optical fiber telecommunications VII, 2020 - Elsevier
Large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the form of supercomputers and
warehouse-scale data centers permeate nearly every corner of modern life from applications …

Dual-microring resonator based 8× 8 silicon photonic switch

Y Huang, Q Cheng, YH Hung, H Guan… - 2019 Optical Fiber …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dual-Microring Resonator Based 8×8 Silicon Photonic Switch Page 1 W1E.6.pdf OFC 2019 ©
OSA 2019 Dual-Microring Resonator Based 8×8 Silicon Photonic Switch Yishen Huang*1 …

Strict non-blocking four-port optical router for mesh photonic network-on-chip

Y Xia, S Yang, J Niu, X Fu, L Yang - Journal of Semiconductors, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a strict non-blocking four-port optical router that is used for a mesh photonic
network-on-chip on a silicon-on-insulator platform. The router consists of eight silicon …

Hybrid 2D/3D photonic integration for non-planar circuit topologies

A Nesic, M Blaicher, T Hoose… - ECOC 2016; 42nd …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid 2D/3D Photonic Integration for Non-Planar Circuit Topologies Page 1 Hybrid 2D/3D
Photonic Integration for Non-Planar Circuit Topologies Aleksandar Nesic(1),*, Matthias …

Large-scale silicon photonic switches

K Kwon, TJ Seok, J Henriksson, J Luo… - 2019 PhotonIcs & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonic micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) offers unique advantage for
reconfigurable circuits with low optical loss and low power consumption. The MEMS …