Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 51, Issue 11, 110005(2014)
Optical Routers for Photonic Networks-on-Chip
Silicon photonics based on SOI platform provides a viable solution for photonic network-on-chips (NoCs), since its advantages in large bandwidth, low delay and power-efficient. Optical router which is used to exchange data between the processor cores is a key component for the photonic NoCs. This paper reviews the latest research progress of optical router and introduces the general principle to build N-port non-blocking optical router using microring and Mach-Zehnder switching unit. The simulated results show that the optical router constructed by this method has least number of optical switches, lowest insertion loss, and lowest average power-consumption compared with optical routers of the same size reported before.
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Chen Qiaoshan, Yang Lin. Optical Routers for Photonic Networks-on-Chip[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2014, 51(11): 110005
Category: Reviews
Received: Apr. 1, 2014
Accepted: --
Published Online: Nov. 7, 2014
The Author Email: Qiaoshan Chen (chenqs@semi.ac.cn)