Title :
Energy-efficient, digitally-driven “fat pipe” silicon photonic circuit switch in the UCSD MORDIA data-center network
Author :
Aguinaldo, Ryan ; Forencich, Alex ; DeRose, Christopher ; Lentine, Anthony ; Trotter, Douglas C. ; Starbuck, Andrew ; Fainman, Yeshaiahu ; Porter, George ; Papen, George ; Mookherjea, Shayan
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
Using a compact (0.03 mm^2) silicon photonic thermo-optic switch with five cascaded thermo-topic phase-shifters, we demonstrate low insertion loss, low power, microsecond-scale cross-bar switching of twenty wavelength channels, each carrying 10 Gbit/second data concurrently.
Keywords :
computer centres; optical switches; thermo-optical devices; UCSD MORDIA data-center network; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cascaded thermotopic phase-shifters; fat pipe silicon photonic circuit switch; microsecond-scale cross-bar switching; silicon photonic thermo-optic switch; wavelength channels; Loss measurement; Optical interferometry; Optical sensors; Optical switches; Silicon photonics; Switching circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
