Organizer: Dan Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Argishti Melikyan, II-VI Inc., USA; Oleg Sinkin, TE Subcom, USA
Description: As the capacity of optical fiber data center interconnects (DCI) continues exponential growth, energy consumption and cost efficiency become the most important factors of future scalability. This symposium will address the energy efficiency of DCI networks and how new fJ/bit fiber link designs and technologies will be employed to realize 100 Tbps links and scalable DCIs. Invited talks in this Symposium will ask questions like: What are the power requirements for scalability and the bottlenecks? Which architectures can be used for efficient scaling? Is some new physics and/or good engineering necessary for fJ/bit 100 Tbps links and what technologies are candidates to commercialization? What is the role of coherent technology and connection to telecom applications outside DCIs? The leading experts from industry and academia will share their state-of-the-art achievements and will try to answer these questions and more.
Speakers: Kai Shi, Microsoft Research, USA
DCI Architectures for Energy Scalability
Erman Timurdogan, Analog Photonics, USA
Intra-chip Communications and Power Requirements Tutorial: What it Takes for fJ/bit on a Photonic/Electronic Chip
Juerg Leuthold, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
DCI Links 2 km< for fJ/bit Opportunities
Peter Winzer, Nubis Communications, USA
Will it be Coherent or not Coherent
Vladimir Stojanovic, Ayar Labs, USA
What Role Will Co-packaging Play
Mike Frankel, Ciena, Canada
Prospects for Optical Transceivers Expanding to Access, Metro and Long-haul
David Miller, Stanford University, USA
What Pieces do you Keep and What to Give Up for fJ/bit Optical