Recent advancements towards green optical networks

Davidson, Alan and Glesk, Ivan and Buis, Adrianus and Wang, Junjia and Chen, Lawrence; Popiolek-Masajada, Agnieszka and Urbanczyk, Waclaw, eds. (2014) Recent advancements towards green optical networks. In: Proc. SPIE 9441. SPIE, GBR. ISBN 9781628415568 (https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084956)

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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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Davidson, Alan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0510-0185, Glesk, Ivan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3176-8069, Buis, Adrianus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-293X, Wang, Junjia and Chen, Lawrence; Popiolek-Masajada, Agnieszka and Urbanczyk, Waclaw
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