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Optical interconnect technology has been adopted for over half a century. Today approximately one billion optical connectors and interconnects are deployed annually, and the growth is expected to increase as more technologies incorporate optical and photonic components. Although its basic function (the conveyance of photons over a channel) has remained the same, optical interconnect has been constantly evolving and innovating over the decades to push the boundaries of performance. In this paper we report on the evolution of optical interconnect technology from its initial applications in long haul telecommunications links to its future application to quantum networks.

We report on the design and development of a hyperscale integrated photonics eco-system platform developed to allow validation of micro-photonic devices in a data center environment. European research partners collaborated with Japanese PETRA spin-out AIO Core to demonstrate singlemode and multimode silicon photonic micro-transceivers.

This paper presents the performance evaluation of a duo-stage SOA based All-Optical Multicasting capable Switch architecture suitable for the requirements of Grid Networking. SOAs based devices are located at the input and the output ports of the switch. The SOAs located at the input port serves as a multicasting and routing device feeding the signals into an N × N arrayed waveguide gratings and the SOAs at the output are regenerators to restore the quality of the signals before sending them into the network. This design uses the non-linearity processes in SOA such as Cross Gain Modulation and Cross Phase Modulation to achieve a maximum of 1–16 multicast at a bit-rate of 10 Gbps within the all-optical switch. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 59–62, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22031