Electronic and photonic integrated circuits for fast data center optical circuit switches

Authors :: Luke Theogarajan
John E. Bowers
Greg Fish
Avantika Sohdi
Jon Roth
Luis Chen
Source :: IEEE Communications Magazine. 51:53-59
Publication Year :: 2013
Publisher :: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013.
Abstract: This article surveys recent work in optical switching technologies and presents a fast optical circuit switch that intimately integrates the control electrics at the chip level using a novel wafer-scale heterogeneous integration technique.

Subjects :: Circuit switching
Wafer-scale integration
Computer Networks and Communications
business.industry
Computer science
Optical cross-connect
Photonic integrated circuit
Electrical engineering
Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY
Optical performance monitoring
Discrete circuit
Chip
Optical switch
Computer Science Applications
Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
business

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