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 …

Scaling up silicon photonic-based accelerators: Challenges and opportunities

MA Al-Qadasi, L Chrostowski, BJ Shastri, S Shekhar - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital accelerators in the latest generation of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
processes support, multiply, and accumulate (MAC) operations at energy efficiencies …

Delocalized photonic deep learning on the internet's edge

A Sludds, S Bandyopadhyay, Z Chen, Z Zhong… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Advanced machine learning models are currently impossible to run on edge devices such
as smart sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles owing to constraints on power, processing …

Integrating photonics with silicon nanoelectronics for the next generation of systems on a chip

AH Atabaki, S Moazeni, F Pavanello, H Gevorgyan… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Electronic and photonic technologies have transformed our lives—from computing and
mobile devices, to information technology and the internet. Our future demands in these …

Photonic multiply-accumulate operations for neural networks

MA Nahmias, TF De Lima, AN Tait… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has long been known that photonic communication can alleviate the data movement
bottlenecks that plague conventional microelectronic processors. More recently, there has …

Resonant plasmonic micro-racetrack modulators with high bandwidth and high temperature tolerance

M Eppenberger, A Messner, BI Bitachon, W Heni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Resonant modulators encode electrical data onto wavelength-multiplexed optical carriers.
Today, silicon microring modulators are perceived as promising to implement such links; …

A monolithically integrated large-scale optical phased array in silicon-on-insulator CMOS

SW Chung, H Abediasl… - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A large-scale monolithic silicon nanophotonic phased array on a chip creates and
dynamically steers a high-resolution optical beam in free space, enabling emerging …

The emergence of silicon photonics as a flexible technology platform

X Chen, MM Milosevic, S Stanković… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

A 3-D-integrated silicon photonic microring-based 112-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter with nonlinear equalization and thermal control

H Li, G Balamurugan, T Kim, MN Sakib… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microring modulators (MRMs) with CMOS electronics enable compact low power transmitter
solutions for 400G Ethernet and co-packaged optical transceivers. In this article, we present …

A coherent photonic crossbar for scalable universal linear optics

G Giamougiannis, A Tsakyridis, Y Ma… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a novel interferometric coherent photonic crossbar architecture (Xbar) that
can realize any tensor operator and allows for total loss-induced fidelity restoration, offering …