Silicon Photonics for Exascale Systems

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2014.m3e.1
• Publication Date: 2014-03-25T03:32:52Z
• Authors: Keren Bergman; Sébastien Rumley; Noam Ophir; Dessislava Nikolova; Robert Hendry; Qi Li; Kishore Padmara; Ke Wen; Lee Zhu
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; 7. Clean energy

As future computing systems aim to realize Exascale performance the challenge of energy efficient data movement rather than computation is paramount. Silicon photonics has emerged as perhaps the most promising technology to address these challenges by providing ultra-high bandwidth density communication capabilities that is essentially distance independent. This tutorial will explore the design of silicon photonic interconnected architectures and their impact on the system level performance.