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  • Silicon Photonic Flex-LIONS...
    Xiao, Xian; Proietti, Roberto; Liu, Gengchen; Lu, Hongbo; Fotouhi, Pouya; Werner, Sebastian; Zhang, Yu; Yoo, S. J. Ben

    IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics, 2020-March-April, 2020-3-00, Letnik: 26, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    This paper reports the first experimental demonstration of silicon photonic (SiPh) Flex-LIONS, a bandwidth-reconfigurable SiPh switching fabric based on wavelength routing in arrayed waveguide grating routers (AWGRs) and space switching. Compared with the state-of-the-art bandwidth-reconfigurable switching fabrics, Flex-LIONS architecture exhibits 21× less number of switching elements and 2.9× lower on-chip loss for 64 ports, which indicates significant improvements in scalability and energy efficiency. System experimental results carried out with an 8-port SiPh Flex-LIONS prototype demonstrate error-free one-to-eight multicast interconnection at 25 Gb/s and bandwidth reconfiguration from 25 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s between selected input and output ports. Besides, benchmarking simulation results show that Flex-LIONS can provide a 1.33× reduction in packet latency and >1.5× improvements in energy efficiency when replacing the core layer switches of Fat-Tree topologies with Flex-LIONS. Finally, we discuss the possibility of scaling Flex-LIONS up to N = 1024 ports (N = M × W) by arranging M 2 W-port Flex-LIONS in a Thin-CLOS architecture using W wavelengths.