Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 5, 120008(2017)

Datacenter optics: requirements, technologies, and trends (Invited Paper)

Xiang Zhou*, Hong Liu, and Ryohei Urata
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  • Platforms, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
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    Google intra-datacenter network.
    Datacenter optical transceiver evolution.
    Historical view on the (a) pluggable optics front panel BW and (b) energy efficiency scaling.
    Technology options to scale the BW. WDM, wavelength division multiplexing; PDM, polarization division multiplexing.
    Impact of modulator drive swing on supported link loss and relative power consumption for two 400 G designs: 4×100 Gb/s PAM4 and 1×400 Gb/s PM-16QAM.
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    Special Issue: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVENTION OF OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS

    Received: Dec. 7, 2016

    Accepted: Feb. 24, 2017

    Published Online: Jul. 23, 2018

    The Author Email: Xiang Zhou (zhoux@google.com)

    DOI:10.3788/COL201715.120008

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