Photonic Integration in Converged Data Centre Systems
Richard PITWON
Seagate, 1000 Langstone Technology Park, Havant,
Hampshire PO9 1SA, United Kingdom
richard.pitwon@seagate.com
System embedded photonic interconnect has been a strong area of focus in the European funding programmes for collaborative research and technological development over the past 15 years. This is particularly evident in projects from the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), which ran from 2002 – 2006, the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), which ran from 2007 – 2013 and the current Horizon2020 programme, which started in 2014 and is due to end in 2020.
Silicon Photonics based WDM Systems: Chip and Module Level Integration
Jeremy WITZENS, Alvaro MOSCOSOHMARTÍR1, Juliana MÜLLER, Florian MERGET, Johannes HAUCK, Sebastian ROMEROHGARCÍA, Bin SHEN, François LELARGE, Romain BRENOT, Alexandre GARREAU, Elad MENTOVICH, Daniel E. RASMUSSEN, Avner BADIHI, Anna SANDOMIRSKY, Rony SETTER
RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Integrated Photonics, Sommerfeldstr. 24, Aachen, 52074, Germany
Almae Technologies SAS, Route de Nozay, Marcoussis, 91460, France
IIIMV Lab, Campus de Polytechnique, 1 av. Augustin Fresnel, Palaiseau, 91767, France
Mellanox Technologies, Hakidma 26, Ofer Industrial Park, Yokneam, Israel
jwitzens@iph.rwth-aachen.de
The implementation of compact, dense WDM transceivers in Silicon Photonics (SiP), that are sufficiently cost and power efficient for Data Centre applications, is a notably challenging endeavour. Semiconductor Mode Locked Lasers (MLL) and Resonant Ring Modulators (RRM) have been proposed as key devices for an elegant and efficient transceiver architecture. In recent works, we have shown that single section passively modeMlocked MLLs can generate adequate optical carriers for 14 Gbps and 25 Gbps serial communications with onMoff keying modulation. A systematic analysis of the optical power budget of a solution comprising a MLL, an array of RRMs driven by hybridly integrated chipMscale electronics, and a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) has also been reported . At the 2017 European Conf. on Integrated Optics we will be reporting on recent progress towards integration of this transceiver architecture.
Dilated 4×4 Hybrid MZI-SOA Switch with Relaxed Active Bias Control
M. Ding, A. Wonfor, Q. Cheng, R. V. Penty, I. H. White
Centre for Photonic Systems, University of Cambridge,
CB3 0FA, United Kingdom
md613@cam.ac.uk
Increasingly complex and high capacity optical switch fabrics are being proposed and demonstrated for high-bandwidth data streams in datacentres. Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) and semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) based switches have received much attention owing to their nanosecond response time which is essential for packet switching. However, the scalability of MZI switches is inherently limited by insertion loss and accumulated crosstalk, whilst the scalability of SOA switches is restricted by accumulated noise and distortion.
Flexible Multimode Polymer Waveguides for High-Speed Optical Interconnects
Fengyuan SHI, Nikos BAMIEDAKIS, Richard V. PENTY, Ian H. WHITE,
Daping CHU
Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, United Kingdom dpc31@cam.ac.uk
Abstract: Flexible multimode polymer waveguides are shown to maintain bandwidth length products > 300 GHz×m for bend radii as low as 3 mm under restricted launch, with < 0.7 dB excess bend loss.