• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 15, Issue 5, 120008 (2017)
Xiang Zhou*, Hong Liu, and Ryohei Urata
Author Affiliations
  • Platforms, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201715.120008 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xiang Zhou, Hong Liu, Ryohei Urata. Datacenter optics: requirements, technologies, and trends (Invited Paper)[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(5): 120008 Copy Citation Text show less
    Google intra-datacenter network.
    Fig. 1. Google intra-datacenter network.
    Datacenter optical transceiver evolution.
    Fig. 2. Datacenter optical transceiver evolution.
    Historical view on the (a) pluggable optics front panel BW and (b) energy efficiency scaling.
    Fig. 3. Historical view on the (a) pluggable optics front panel BW and (b) energy efficiency scaling.
    Technology options to scale the BW. WDM, wavelength division multiplexing; PDM, polarization division multiplexing.
    Fig. 4. Technology options to scale the BW. WDM, wavelength division multiplexing; PDM, polarization division multiplexing.
    Impact of modulator drive swing on supported link loss and relative power consumption for two 400 G designs: 4×100 Gb/s PAM4 and 1×400 Gb/s PM-16QAM.
    Fig. 5. Impact of modulator drive swing on supported link loss and relative power consumption for two 400 G designs: 4×100Gb/s PAM4 and 1×400Gb/s PM-16QAM.
    Xiang Zhou, Hong Liu, Ryohei Urata. Datacenter optics: requirements, technologies, and trends (Invited Paper)[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(5): 120008
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