Broadband Operation of Nanophotonic Router for Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip

Author

Biberman, Aleksandr ; Lee, Benjamin G. ; Sherwood-Droz, Nicolás ; Lipson, Michal ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

22

Issue

12

fYear

2010

fDate

6/15/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

926

Lastpage

928

Abstract

A nonblocking four-port bidirectional multiwavelength message router for use in photonic network-on-chip (NoC) architectures implementing two-dimensional mesh or torus topologies is fully characterized with bit-error-rate measurements and eye diagrams using three wavelength-parallel 10-Gb/s channels. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of using this advanced switching subsystem within dynamically routed multiwavelength photonic NoCs.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; error statistics; integrated optics; nanophotonics; network-on-chip; optical communication equipment; photonic switching systems; silicon; telecommunication network routing; 2D mesh; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit-error-rate measurements; broadband operation; eye diagrams; multiwavelength photonic NoCs; nanophotonic router; nonblocking four-port bidirectional multiwavelength message router; silicon photonic networks-on-chip; switching subsystem; torus topologies; Multiprocessor interconnection; optical resonators; optical switches; photonic switching systems; wavelength-division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2010.2047850

Filename

5447810