• DocumentCode
    1585214
  • Title

    40 Gb/s 8×8 low-latency optical switch for data centers

  • Author

    Proietti, Roberto ; Ye, Xiaohui ; Yin, Yawei ; Potter, Andrew ; Yu, Runxiang ; Kurumida, Junya ; Akella, Venkatesh ; Yoo, S.J.B.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    This paper reports on a 40 Gb/s 8×8 optical switch for data centers. Experiments demonstrate error-free operation with 118.2 ns switching latency in contention-less architecture. Simulations show 150 ns latency for consolidated architectures.
  • Keywords
    computer centres; optical switches; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; contention-less architecture; data centers; error-free operation; low-latency optical switch; Adaptive optics; Clocks; Optical buffering; Optical interconnections; Optical interferometry; Optical switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875356