Search

This paper aims to compare the electrical chip-to-chip interconnects and optical interconnect from the physical view and the computing performance view. Using transmission line theory, the constraints of transmission bandwidth is obtained. The calculation indicates that ideal maximum electrical capacity density is much lower than the experimental optical interconnected one. In this calculation, all the parameters come from International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) and reports of world-class laboratories. Compared with bandwidth, application is a more important factor, which has great influence on the technology development direction and deployment in the real scenarios. Therefore, we take fast Fourier transform (FFT) computation as an example to study whether and how the optical interconnect technology has influences on the computing performance. One of most popular topology, mesh architecture is evaluated in this paper. The results illustrate the bandwidth increase will lift up the speedup and efficiency, especially for the clusters with many processors working cooperatively. From the above analysis, it is shown that the unique features of optical interconnects make it possible to provide more bandwidth, and then bring great advantage to computing performance.

This paper compares the optical and electrical interconnect systems by analyzing the efficiency and evaluating the total processing time, and design an experiment to demonstrate this performance promotion. With the increasing demand on large-scale parallel computing tasks, data transmission instead of data computing has become more and more important, so the rapid development of optical chip-to-chip interconnects techniques has gotten more attention. In this paper, we take fast Fourier transform (FFT) computation as an example to study whether and how the optical interconnection has influence on the computing performance, and three topology models are used to judging the transmission latency, and the relationship between the total processing time and the FFT points is also under investigation. Both results show parallel optical interconnection can bring large advantages in promoting computing performance. It is also found that the larger the transmission scale is, the more saving optical interconnection makes.

As one of the most promising next-generation access network techniques, the user-oriented Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) should pay more attention to its quality of service (QoS). However, now the EPON adopts mostly differentiated services model (Diffserv) that only provides quality control on traffic aggregation, whereas, the quality of user session cannot be guaranteed when the network is overloaded with substantial connections. This article proposes to apply integrated services model (Intserv) in Diffserv-based EPON, which uses per-flow processing to guarantee QoS. In the simulation, a framework of combined Diffserv and Intserv model is employed in an EPON system, with a dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm that adapts to it. The simulation results demonstrate that the EPON system with the combined models can provide more flexible, various control for user-oriented service quality.

Considering atoms entering an interaction region with limited length, then continuously running away, we show the features of the optical gain and atomic grating structure in the collective atomic recoil laser (CARL).

In the presence of a coherent coupling between intersubbands of the conduction band in a semiconductor quantum well, light amplification without inversion is investigated by solving the density matrix equation and analyzed by the electron renormalization theory. The quasi-Fermi energy level is used to take the place of injection rate. This shows that the amplification of the interband transition without population inversion in the bare state can emerge on the lower frequency side of the resonant transition only. This result could be understood as population inversion in the dressed state representation.

The compensation effects of fiber nonlinearity in 112 Gb/s polarization division multiplexing (PDM) coherent optical systems by mid-span optical phase conjugation (OPC) based on four wave mixing (FWM) effect are studied. Comparisons of the compensation results between PDM coherent optical-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) system and the single carrier (SC) PDM quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) system are provided as well. The results demonstrate that nonlinear compensation effect with mid-span OPC in PDM CO-OFDM system is much more obvious than that in SC PDM QPSK system.