Free Space Intra-Datacenter Interconnects Based on 2D Optical Beam Steering Enabled by Photonic Integrated Circuits

Data centers are continuously growing in scale and can contain more than one million servers spreading across thousands of racks; requiring a large-scale switching network to provide broadband and reconfigurable interconnections of low latency. Traditional data center network architectures, through...

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Main Authors: Charidimos Chaintoutis, Behnam Shariati, Adonis Bogris, Paul V. Dijk, Chris G. H. Roeloffzen, Jerome Bourderionnet, Ioannis Tomkos, Dimitris Syvridis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:Photonics
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/5/3/21