Multi-Terabit Transparent Photonic Networks Through Integrated Silicon Photonics

ECCS 0725707凯伦伯格曼，哥伦比亚大学高度可扩展和能源效率的互连网络是至关重要的先进计算系统的未来性能。光子互连网络提供了一个潜在的颠覆性的技术解决方案，可以提供超高的吞吐量，最小的接入时延，和低功耗，仍然独立于capability.Intellectual Merit：在这个拟议的计划，我们的目标是解决在宽带网络中的光系统的设计和实施耦合在硅纳米光子学的巨大容量的光数据通信。这两个领域的合并提供了一个无与伦比的机会，在创建一个新的范例，真正的光域集成系统的基础上动态纳米光子积木。在这项拟议的研究计划，核心纳米结构的光子元件？由快速和功率高效的开关节点和延迟线组成？以实现用于大容量数据路由的集成光网络。新的网络架构是专门设计的纳米级集成和实现真正的端到端的透明光波路径的高容量datacommunications.Broader影响和推广：拟议的计划解决什么也许是最关键的性能挑战，未来的性能计算系统的扩展，即安装通信基础设施的瓶颈。光子互连网络的插入可以从根本上改变未来几代计算系统的性能和能效路线图。在教育方面，这种网络和光学器件方面的跨学科组合将被引入到修订后的和新的本科生和研究生课程序列中，强调并探索其物理和逻辑层的相互依赖性。拟议的计划进一步提供了一个独特的机会，培养研究生在一个垂直整合的团队为导向的研究，与网络和光学K-12学校的具体推广与周围的纽约大都市区的少数民族比例高。

ECCS 0725707Keren Bergman, Columbia UniversityHighly scalable and energy efficient interconnection networks are critical to the future performance of advanced computing systems. Photonic interconnection networks offer a potentially disruptive technology solution that can provide ultra-high throughput, minimal access latencies, and low power dissipation that remains independent of capacity.Intellectual Merit: In this proposed program we aim to address the design and implementation of optical systems in broadband networks by coupling advancements in silicon nanophotonics with the tremendous capacity of optical data communications. The merging of these two fields offers an unparalleled opportunity in creating a new paradigm of truly optical domain integrated systems based on dynamic nanophotonic building blocks. In this proposed research program, core nanostructured photonic components ? consisting of fast and power efficient switch nodes and delay lines ? are realized to enable an integrated optical network for ultrahigh capacity data routing. The novel network architecture is specifically designed for nanoscale integration and implementation of truly end-to-end transparent lightwave paths for high capacity data communications.Broader Impact and Outreach: The proposed program tackles what is perhaps the most critical performance challenge to the future scaling of performance computing systems, namely the mounting communications infrastructure bottleneck. The insertion of a photonic interconnection network can fundamentally alter the performance and energy efficiency roadmap for future generations of computing systems. In terms of education, this interdisciplinary combination of networks and optical devices aspects will be introduced into revised and new undergraduate and graduate course sequences that emphasize and explore their physical- and logical-layer inter-dependences. The proposed program further offers a unique opportunity to train graduate students in a vertically integrated team-oriented research, with specific outreach on networks and optics to K-12 schools with high proportion of underrepresented minorities around the New York metropolitan area.