Wavelength division multiplexers/demultiplexers for optical interconnects in massively parallel processing

Feng Zhao; Yun Zhang; Jizuo Zou; Zhong Shi; Bipin Bihari; Xuegong Deng; Jie Qiao; Zan Shi; Ray T. Chen

doi:10.1117/1.1526470

1 January 2003 Wavelength division multiplexers/demultiplexers for optical interconnects in massively parallel processing

Feng Zhao, Yun Zhang, Jizuo Zou, Zhong Shi, Bipin Bihari, Xuegong Deng, Jie Qiao, Zan Shi, Ray T. Chen

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, Issue 1, (January 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1526470

Communication between computing systems is recognized as the main limitation to increase the speed of all-electronic systems beyond levels currently achieved in existing supercomputers. Optical interconnects hold great promise in eliminating current communication bottlenecks because of properties that stem from optics inherent parallelism. Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology, by which multiple optical channels can be simultaneously transmitted at different wavelengths through a single optical transmission medium, is a useful means of making full use of optics parallelism in an application of interconnects for massive parallel processing. We first briefly review the bottlenecks of electrical interconnects in massively parallel processing. Then we discuss the advantages of optical interconnects and present our approach of optoelectronic interconnects in massively parallel processing by WDM technology. We then review the working principles of wavelength division (de) multiplexers [WD(D)M] for optical interconnects in massively parallel processing and address the optical design issues of WD(D)Ms. Finally, we report experimental data of WD(D)Ms for this application. The devices exhibit low insertion loss, high reliability, and low cost.

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Feng Zhao, Yun Zhang, Jizuo Zou, Zhong Shi, Bipin Bihari, Xuegong Deng, Jie Qiao, Zan Shi, and Ray T. Chen "Wavelength division multiplexers/demultiplexers for optical interconnects in massively parallel processing," Optical Engineering 42(1), (1 January 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1526470

Published: 1 January 2003

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