SBIR Phase II: Parallel Non-Blocking Routing Algorithm Implementation for Free-Space All-Optical Interconnect

这项小企业创新研究第二阶段计划的任务是将世界上第一个可扩展的全光自由空间太比特/秒互连技术商业化。没有其他可行的低延迟，超高带宽的全光互连技术，可以在低额外成本下扩展I/O端口的数量，以响应不断增长的全球带宽需求。事实上，一个可行的全光互连已经被确定为一个真正的全光网络的关键使能技术。在二期项目中，revo将开发硬件和软件来配置和管理revo的新型互连技术，以提供商业上成功的、低成本的、超高带宽的互连系统。在这个项目中，revo将建立一个存储区域网络测试平台，开发软件驱动程序和互连硬件控制器。这项工作将在全光八端口互连的测试和评估中达到顶峰，展示该技术前所未有的优雅和简单性（8x8互连只需10个交换元件，缩放为O(Nlog2N)）。8x8互连所需的光学硬件将作为并行协同II期项目的一部分同时制造，但在此组装为完整的互连系统。这种革命性的全光互连技术将提供高速、高带宽的互连，在全光通信、光计算和网络以及军事和航空航天应用的电路交换和分组交换市场中都有应用。

The mission of this Small Business Innovation Research Phase II program is to commercialize the world's first scalable all-optical free space terabit/second interconnect technology. There is no other viable low latency, ultrahigh bandwidth all-optical interconnect technology that can scale up in the number of I/O ports at low additional cost in response to the ever increasing worldwide bandwidth demand. Indeed, a viable all-optical interconnect has been identified as the critical enabling technology for a true All-Optical Network. Within this Phase II project Reveo will develop hardware and software that will configure and manage Reveo's novel interconnect technology in order to provide a commercially successful, low cost, ultrahigh bandwidth interconnect system. In this project, Reveo will build a storage area network test bed, developing both the software drivers and the interconnect hardware controllers. This work will culminate in the testing and evaluation of an all-optical eight-port interconnect demonstrating the unprecedented elegance and simplicity of this technology (as few as 10 switching elements for an 8x8 interconnect, scaling as O(Nlog2N)). The required optical hardware for the 8x8 interconnect will be simultaneously fabricated as part of the parallel synergistic Phase II project, but assembled as a complete interconnect system herein. This revolutionary all optical interconnect technology will provide high speed, high bandwidth interconnects that find applications in both the circuit-switched and packet switched markets of all-optical telecommunications, optical computing and networking, and military and aerospace applications.