Title :
Performance assessment of an optimized optical supercomputer interconnect architecture
Author :
Karinou, F. ; Roudas, I. ; Vlachos, K. ; Hemenway, B.R. ; Grzybowski, R.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comp. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Rio, Greece
Abstract :
We investigate the performance of an optimized optical supercomputer interconnect architecture using a minimum number of on-off gates. A 64×64 optical interconnection is demonstrated using 10 Gb/s IM/DD and 2.5 GBd coherent PDM/QPSK optical links.
Keywords :
optical communication; optical interconnections; optical links; performance evaluation; quadrature phase shift keying; PDM/QPSK optical links; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; on-off gates; optical interconnection; optimized optical supercomputer interconnect architecture; performance assessment; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Osmosis; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
