Publications

Energy-efficient, digitally-driven "fat pipe" silicon photonic circuit switch in the UCSD MORDIA data-center network

Aguinaldo, Ryan; Forencich, Alex; DeRose, Christopher T.; Lentine, Anthony L.; Trotter, Douglas C.; Starbuck, Andrew L.; Fainman, Yeshaiahu; Porter, George; Papen, George; Mookherjea, Shayan

Using a compact (0.03 mm2) silicon photonic thermo-optic switch with five cascaded thermotopic phase-shifters, we demonstrate low insertion loss, low power, microsecond-scale cross-bar switching of twenty wavelength channels, each carrying 10 Gbit/second data concurrently. © 2014 OSA.