Scalability of optical interconnects based on microring resonators

Abstract:

This letter investigates the use of optical microring resonators as switching elements (SEs) in large optical interconnection fabrics. We introduce a simple physical-layer model to assess scalability in crossbar- and Benes-based architectures. We also propose a new dilated SE that improves scalability to build fabrics of several terabits per second of aggregate capacity. © 2006 IEEE.

Año de publicación:

2010

Keywords:

• Microring resonators (MRs)
• Optical interconnects

Fuente:

scopus