Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Hybrid MZI-SOA InGaAs/InP Photonic Integrated Switches

(2018) Minsheng Ding et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Design Space Exploration of Microring Resonators in Silicon Photonic Interconnects: Impact of the Ring Curvature

(2018) Meisam Bahadori et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Thermal Rectification of Integrated Microheaters for Microring Resonators in Silicon Photonics Platform

(2018) Meisam Bahadori et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Optically Disaggregated Data Centers With Minimal Remote Memory Latency: Technologies, Architectures, and Resource Allocation [Invited]

(2018) Georgios Zervas et al.   Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Software-defined networking control plane for seamless integration of multiple silicon photonic switches in Datacom networks

(2018) Yiwen Shen et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Photonic switching in high performance datacenters [Invited]

(2018) Qixiang Cheng et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Monolithic 9 GHz passively mode locked quantum dot lasers directly grown on on-axis (001) Si

(2018) Songtao Liu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

High-Power Evanescently Coupled Waveguide MUTC Photodiode With >105-GHz Bandwidth

(2017) Qinglong Li et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

SWDM PAM4 Transmission Over Next Generation Wide-Band Multimode Optical Fiber

(2017) Yi Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Fully integrated microwave frequency synthesizer on heterogeneous silicon-III/V

(2017) Jared Hulme et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Experimental parametric study of 128 Gb/s PAM-4 transmission system using a multi-electrode silicon photonic Mach Zehnder modulator

(2017) Alireza Samani et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical interconnects for extreme scale computing systems

(2017) Sébastien Rumley et al.   PARALLEL COMPUTING

Large-FSR Thermally Tunable Double-Ring Filters for WDM Applications in Silicon Photonics

(2017) C. L. Manganelli et al.   IEEE Photonics Journal

32 × 32 silicon electro-optic switch with built-in monitors and balanced-status units

(2017) Lei Qiao et al.   Scientific Reports

High-performance silicon photonic tri-state switch based on balanced nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer

(2017) Zeqin Lu et al.   Scientific Reports

Jupiter rising

(2016) Arjun Singh et al.   COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

Amplitude and Phase Noise of Frequency Combs Generated by Single-Section InAs/InP Quantum-Dash-Based Passively and Actively Mode-Locked Lasers

(2016) Vivek Panapakkam et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Electro-Optical Ring Modulator: An Ultracompact Model for the Comparison and Optimization of p-n, p-i-n, and Capacitive Junction

(2016) Olivier Dubray et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

A 45 nm CMOS-SOI Monolithic Photonics Platform With Bit-Statistics-Based Resonant Microring Thermal Tuning

(2016) Chen Sun et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS

High-Speed Avalanche Photodiode and High-Sensitivity Receiver Optical Subassembly for 100-Gb/s Ethernet

(2016) Fumito Nakajima et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Scaling Trends for Picojoule-per-Bit WDM Photonic Interconnects in CMOS SOI and FinFET Processes

(2016) Jun Li et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Crosstalk in SOI Microring Resonator-Based Filters

(2016) Hasitha Jayatilleka et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Compact InP-Based DFB-EAM Enabling PAM-4 112 Gb/s Transmission Over 2 km

(2016) Miquel Angel Mestre et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Chip-Scale Silicon Photonic Interconnects: A Formal Study on Fabrication Non-Uniformity

(2016) Mahdi Nikdast et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

56 Gb/s Germanium Waveguide Electro-Absorption Modulator

(2016) Srinivasan Ashwyn Srinivasan et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Crosstalk Penalty in Microring-Based Silicon Photonic Interconnect Systems

(2016) Meisam Bahadori et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Comprehensive Design Space Exploration of Silicon Photonic Interconnects

(2016) Meisam Bahadori et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Electrically pumped continuous-wave III–V quantum dot lasers on silicon

(2016) Siming Chen et al.   Nature Photonics

16 × 16 non-blocking silicon optical switch based on electro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometers

(2016) Liangjun Lu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Transfer-printing-based integration of single-mode waveguide-coupled III-V-on-silicon broadband light emitters

(2016) Andreas De Groote et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Ultralow crosstalk nanosecond-scale nested 2 × 2 Mach–Zehnder silicon photonic switch

(2016) Nicolas Dupuis et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Roadmap on silicon photonics

(2016) David Thomson et al.   Journal of Optics

25  Gbps low-voltage waveguide Si–Ge avalanche photodiode

(2016) Zhihong Huang et al.   Optica

Ultrafast pulse-amplitude modulation with a femtojoule silicon photonic modulator

(2016) Raphaël Dubé-Demers et al.   Optica

30 GHz bandwidth 850 nm VCSEL with sub-100 fJ/bit energy dissipation at 25–50 Gbit/s

(2015) E. Haglund et al.   ELECTRONICS LETTERS

A 25 Gb/s Burst-Mode Receiver for Low Latency Photonic Switch Networks

(2015) Alexander Rylyakov et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS

Flip-Chip Interconnection Lumped-Electrode EADFB Laser for 100-Gb/s/ $\lambda $ Transmitter

(2015) Shigeru Kanazawa et al.   IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

High-Speed BPSK Modulation in Silicon

(2015) Qi Li et al.   IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

A 71-Gb/s NRZ Modulated 850-nm VCSEL-Based Optical Link

(2015) Daniel M. Kuchta et al.   IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

1310 nm hybrid InP/InGaAsP on silicon distributed feedback laser with high side-mode suppression ratio

(2015) Helene Duprez et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Compact models for carrier-injection silicon microring modulators

(2015) Rui Wu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

5 x 20 Gb/s heterogeneously integrated III-V on silicon electro-absorption modulator array with arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer

(2015) Xin Fu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Large data centers interconnect bottlenecks

(2015) Ali Ghiasi   OPTICS EXPRESS

A comb laser-driven DWDM silicon photonic transmitter based on microring modulators

(2015) Chin-Hui Chen et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Ultra-compact 32 × 32 strictly-non-blocking Si-wire optical switch with fan-out LGA interposer

(2015) Ken Tanizawa et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical Crosspoint Matrix Using Broadband Resonant Switches

(2014) Prometheus DasMahapatra et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Intermodulation Crosstalk Characteristics of WDM Silicon Microring Modulators

(2014) Kishore Padmaraju et al.   IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

40 GHz Si/Ge Uni-Traveling Carrier Waveguide Photodiode

(2014) Molly Piels et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Wavelength Locking and Thermally Stabilizing Microring Resonators Using Dithering Signals

(2014) Kishore Padmaraju et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Coherent terabit communications with microresonator Kerr frequency combs

(2014) Joerg Pfeifle et al.   Nature Photonics

Ultra-compact 8 × 8 strictly-non-blocking Si-wire PILOSS switch

(2014) Keijiro Suzuki et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Monolithic MZI-SOA hybrid switch for low-power and low-penalty operation

(2014) Q. Cheng et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Demonstration of the feasibility of large-port-count optical switching using a hybrid Mach–Zehnder interferometer–semiconductor optical amplifier switch module in a recirculating loop

(2014) Q. Cheng et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Ring Resonator Modulators in Silicon for Interchip Photonic Links

(2013) Guoliang Li et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Scalable, Low-Energy Hybrid Photonic Space Switch

(2013) Qixiang Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Monolithically Integrated 8 × 8 Space and Wavelength Selective Cross-Connect

(2013) R. Stabile et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

50-Gb/s ring-resonator-based silicon modulator

(2013) Takeshi Baba et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Monolithic active-passive 16 × 16 optoelectronic switch

(2013) R. Stabile et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

High-performance waveguide-integrated germanium PIN photodiodes for optical communication applications [Invited]

(2013) Léopold Virot et al.   Photonics Research

Helios

(2012) Nathan Farrington et al.   ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

c-Through

(2012) Guohui Wang et al.   ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

Comparison of Silicon Ring Modulators With Interdigitated and Lateral p-n Junctions

(2012) M. Pantouvaki et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

44-Gb/s Silicon Microring Modulators Based on Zigzag PN Junctions

(2012) Xi Xiao et al.   IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Monolithic Nanosecond-Reconfigurable 4$\,\times\,$4 Space and Wavelength Selective Cross-Connect

(2012) Abhinav Rohit et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Zero-bias 40Gbit/s germanium waveguide photodetector on silicon

(2012) Laurent Vivien et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Compact, low-loss and low-power 8×8 broadband silicon optical switch

(2012) Long Chen et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

50-Gb/s silicon quadrature phase-shift keying modulator

(2012) Po Dong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

112-Gb/s monolithic PDM-QPSK modulator in silicon

(2012) Po Dong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Over 67 GHz bandwidth hybrid silicon electroabsorption modulator with asymmetric segmented electrode for 13 μm transmission

(2012) Yongbo Tang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

GaInAsP/InP Membrane Lasers for Optical Interconnects

(2011) Shigehisa Arai et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

The Future of Silicon Photonics: Not So Fast? Insights From 100G Ethernet LAN Transceivers

(2011) Erica R. H. Fuchs et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Large Port Count High-Speed Optical Switch Fabric for Use Within Datacenters [Invited]

(2011) A. Wonfor et al.   Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Forty Gb/s hybrid silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator with low chirp

(2011) Hui-Wen Chen et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Ultra compact 45 GHz CMOS compatible Germanium waveguide photodiode with low dark current

(2011) Christopher T. DeRose et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Ethernet for High-Performance Data centers: On the New IEEE Datacenter Bridging Standards

(2010) Sven-Arne Reinemo et al.   IEEE MICRO

Scale-Out Networking in the Data Center

(2010) Amin Vahdat et al.   IEEE MICRO

Silicon optical modulators

(2010) G. T. Reed et al.   Nature Photonics

Non-Blocking 4x4 Electro-Optic Silicon Switch for On-Chip Photonic Networks

(2010) Min Yang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Roughness Induced Backscattering in Optical Silicon Waveguides

(2010) Francesco Morichetti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High-speed Ge photodetector monolithically integrated with large cross-section silicon-on-insulator waveguide

(2009) Dazeng Feng et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

VL2

(2009) Albert Greenberg et al.   ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

An 8$\,\times\,$8 InP Monolithic Tunable Optical Router (MOTOR) Packet Forwarding Chip

(2009) S.C. Nicholes et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

CMOS-compatible multiple-wavelength oscillator for on-chip optical interconnects

(2009) Jacob S. Levy et al.   Nature Photonics

Athermal silicon arrayed waveguide grating with polymer-filled slot structure

(2009) Xiang Wang et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Scalable optical switches for computing applications [Invited]

(2009) Ian White et al.  

InP-Based Mach–Zehnder Modulator With Capacitively Loaded Traveling-Wave Electrodes

(2008) Suguru Akiyama et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Optical 4x4 hitless slicon router for optical networks-on-chip (NoC)

(2008) Nicolás Sherwood-Droz et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS