硅基光电子技术在大数据时代的机遇与挑战(周治平)25.pdf

Silicon Photonics: Challenge and Opportunity in Big Data Era 周治平. 北京大学 Zhiping Zhou Peking University, China zjzhou@ CIOEC, Sept. 2, 2015 Shenzhen, China / 1 / 2 Silicon Photonics Edited by Zhiping Zhou / 3 Outline • Interconnect and the emerging silicon photonics • Current silicon photonics interconnect • Difficulties and challenges • Conclusions / Applications push the growth of data centers Source: Intel IDF14 Scalability: both quantity and continuous improvement of device performance / 5 Today’s interconnects in data centers Source: M Paniccia, Presentation at Purdue University (2007). Rack to rack: optical (VCSEL-based) In-rack: imminent transformation to optical solution / 6 Today’s racks in data centers In-rack: copper interconnect • High speed difficult for 20 Gbps/wire • Low energy consumption Trend: 25G/50G/100G or higher • Easy to use Copper interconnect can no longer provide the desired speed, must turn to optical interconnects. / 7 Advantages of optical solution Speed 25 Gbps/channel commercialized, 50~70 Gbps/channel possible in the future Scalability: multiplexing • Space division multiplexing: multiple cores or fibers Up to 64 fibers (MXC) in an AOC, aggregated