研究目的
To present a four channel optical passive wavelength-striped mapping (PWSM) device for energy-efficient optical interconnects, enabling scalable power efficient optical interconnect networks by leveraging the bandwidth capacity of current electronic switches or opto-electronic components.
研究成果
The four channel PWSM device designed on a low-loss Si3N4 waveguide platform demonstrates the feasibility of passively serializing/deserializing long length packets on photonic integrated circuits, offering a scalable and energy-efficient solution for optical interconnects in data centers. The device's performance suggests that current complexities of electronic serialization and parallelization of data packets can be addressed in the optical domain, with potential for further optimization in waveguide propagation loss to enhance scalability.
研究不足
The incremental optical insertion loss between adjacent channels is ~9.7 dB due to the integrated passive optical delay waveguides, which may limit the scalability in terms of the number of channels. The device's current constraint is that the total packet length must be kept to 64 ns, requiring different delay lines for different packet lengths and/or a different number of WDM channels.