A Free-space Optical Crossbar Switch Using Wavelength Division Multiplexing and VSCELs
Project Motivation
This project investigates the application of optical interconnects for use in high-speed massively parallel computer systems. We are currently developing a design for a novel, highly-integrated, highly-scalable optical interconnect architecture call the Scalable Optical Crossbar Network (SOCN). SOCN is a hierarchical network architecture consisting of clusters of processors that each consist of several processors connected via a local, all optical crossbar network. The clusters are themselves connected via similar high-bandwidth, low-latency crossbar interconnects to form either a fully connected, medium-scale crossbar connected network of processors or a more sparsely connected very large-scale network of processors.
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Publications
R. Ivey and A. Louri, “Optical crossbar based interconnection network for scalable symmetric multiprocessors,” in Proceedings of Optics in Computing 2001, Lake Tahoe, NV, 2001, pp. 90-94.
R. Ivey and A. Louri, “Crossbarsbar-Connected Optical Interconnects using VCSEL Arrays,” in Proceedings of Optics for the New Millenium, Providence, RI, 2000, pp. 1-7.
B. Webb and A. Louri, “A class of highly scalable optical crossbar-connected interconnection networks (SOCNs) for parallel computing systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 444-458, May 2000.
B. Webb and A. Louri, “All-optical crossbar switch using wavelength division multiplexing and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” in Applied Optics, vol. 38, no. 29, pp. 6176-6183, Oct. 1999.
B. Webb and A. Louri, “A free space optical crossbar switch using wavelength division multiplexing and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing, Las Vegas, NV, 1998, pp. 50-57.