Applications of optical switches, such as signal routing and data-intensive computing, are
critical in optical interconnects and optical computing. Integrated optical switches enabled by …

Following a decade of radical advances in the areas of integrated photonics and computing
architectures, we discuss the use of optics in the current computing landscape attempting to …

As communication energy exceeds computation energy in future technologies, traditional on-
chip electrical interconnects face fundamental challenges in the many-core era. Photonic …

Optical networks on chip (ONoC) has been proposed as a promising alternative paradigm
for electronic NoC with the benefit of optical signaling communications such as ultrahigh …

In this paper, we propose a method to optimize the optical switch by substituting optical
waveguide crossings for optical switching units and an optimizing algorithm to complete the …

For chip multiprocessors, one major challenge is to bridge the increasing speed gap
between processor and the global on-chip interconnect delay. By integrating optical …

A polarization-independent 4× 4 optical matrix switch based on a 580-nm-thick silicon nitride
platform is designed and experimentally demonstrated. The switch is composed of four 2× 2 …

The relative intensity noise (RIN) behavior of coherently combined DFB laser array by
injection locking is experimentally investigated. A monolithically integrated four-element …

In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a 4× 4 non-blocking optical router utilizing 8
mode (de) multiplexers and a 4× 4 microring-based grid network, which can passively …

Fat-tree networks have been widely adopted to High Performance Computing (HPC)
clusters and to Data Center Networks (DCN). These parallel systems usually have a large …