Slotted optical datacenter network with sub-wavelength resource allocation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Bakopoulos, Paraskevas; Tokas, Konstantinos; Spatharakis, Christos; Avramopoulos, Hercules
- Source
- 2017 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM) Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM), 2017 IEEE. :161-162 Jul, 2017
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical switches
Optical amplifiers
Optical fiber networks
Optical buffering
Tuning
Optical transmitters
Optical fibers
Optical switching
Optical interconnects
Data center networks
- Language
- ISSN
- 2376-8614
Optical switching is gaining traction for scaling datacenter networks, apace with soaring traffic demand. We experimentally evaluate a slotted optical network architecture capable of dynamically allocating network resources with sub-wavelength granularity. Network operation is demonstrated with multiple communication scenarios, using 200 μs duration optical bursts.