Recent advancements towards green optical networks

Alan Davidson; Ivan Glesk; Adrianus Buis; Junjia Wang; Lawrence Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2084956

5 December 2014 Recent advancements towards green optical networks

Alan Davidson, Ivan Glesk, Adrianus Buis, Junjia Wang, Lawrence Chen

Proceedings Volume 9441, 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 944117 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084956
Event: XIX Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2014, Jelenia Gora, Poland

Abstract

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in demand for ultra high speed data transmission with end users expecting fast, high bandwidth network access. With this rapid growth in demand, data centres are under pressure to provide ever increasing data rates through their networks and at the same time improve the quality of data handling in terms of reduced latency, increased scalability and improved channel speed for users. However as data rates increase, present technology based on well-established CMOS technology is becoming increasingly difficult to scale and consequently data networks are struggling to satisfy current network demand. In this paper the interrelated issues of electronic scalability, power consumption, limited copper interconnect bandwidth and the limited speed of CMOS electronics will be explored alongside the tremendous bandwidth potential of optical fibre based photonic networks. Some applications of photonics to help alleviate the speed and latency in data networks will be discussed.

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Alan Davidson, Ivan Glesk, Adrianus Buis, Junjia Wang, and Lawrence Chen "Recent advancements towards green optical networks", Proc. SPIE 9441, 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 944117 (5 December 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084956

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