Scaling silicon photonic switch fabrics for data center interconnection networks

D Nikolova, S Rumley, D Calhoun, Q Li, R Hendry… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
With the rapidly increasing aggregate bandwidth requirements of data centers there is a
growing interest in the insertion of optically interconnected networks with high-radix …

Modular architecture for fully non-blocking silicon photonic switch fabric

D Nikolova, DM Calhoun, Y Liu, S Rumley… - Microsystems & …, 2017 - nature.com
Integrated photonics offers the possibility of compact, low energy, bandwidth-dense
interconnects for large port count spatial optical switches, facilitating flexible and energy …

Single Microring-Based Silicon Photonic Crossbar Switches

Q Li, D Nikolova, DM Calhoun, Y Liu… - IEEE Photonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Realizing small-footprint and energy-efficient optical switching fabrics is of crucial
importance to solve the data movement challenges faced by optical interconnection …

Adaptive tuning of photonic devices in a photonic NoC through dynamic workload allocation

JL Abellán, AK Coskun, A Gu, W Jin… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic network-on-chip (PNoC) is a promising candidate to replace traditional electrical
NoC in manycore systems that require substantial bandwidths. The photonic links in the …

Low-overhead thermally resilient optical network-on-chip architecture

M Tinati, S Koohi, S Hessabi - Nano Communication Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Integrated silicon photonic networks have attracted a lot of attention in the recent decades
due to their potentials for low-power and high-bandwidth communications. However, these …

Grating-assisted silicon-on-insulator racetrack resonator reflector

R Boeck, M Caverley, L Chrostowski, NAF Jaeger - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate a grating-assisted silicon-on-insulator (SOI) racetrack
resonator reflector with a reflect port suppression of 10.3 dB and no free spectral range. We …

Silicon photonic memory interconnect for many-core architectures

K Wen, H Guan, DM Calhoun, S Rumley… - 2016 IEEE High …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A scalable and flexible memory interconnect is a key component for a many-core
architecture to take full advantage of the high-bandwidth of multiple memory stacks. In this …

Silicon photonics towards disaggregation of resources in data centers

M Moralis-Pegios, N Terzenidis… - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we demonstrate two subsystems based on Silicon Photonics, towards meeting
the network requirements imposed by disaggregation of resources in Data Centers. The first …

Hardware–software integrated silicon photonics for computing systems

DM Calhoun, Q Li, D Nikolova, CP Chen, K Wen… - Silicon Photonics III …, 2016 - Springer
A wealth of high-bandwidth and energy-efficient silicon photonic devices have been
demonstrated in recent years. These represent promising solutions for high-performance …

Optically-enabled bloom filter label forwarding using a silicon photonic switching matrix

N Terzenidis, M Moralis-Pegios… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simplified forwarding schemes relying on Bloom filter (BF)-based labels emerge as a
promising approach for coping with the substantial increase in lookup table memory …