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CLAP: a crosstalk and loss analysis platform for optical interconnects

M. Nikdast, Luan H. K. Duong, Jiang Xu, S. L. Beux, Xiaowen Wu, Zhehui Wang, Peng Yang, Yaoyao Ye
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chips · 2014 · DOI: 10.1109/NOCS.2014.7008779
Silicon photonic interconnectsNetwork-on-Chip
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chips 2014 M. Nikdast, Luan H. K. Duong, Jiang Xu, S. L. Beux, Xiaowen Wu, Zhehui Wang, Peng Yang, Yaoyao Ye
Abstract

Basic photonic devices in inter- and intra-chip optical networks suffer from inevitable power loss and crosstalk noise. Incoherent crosstalk introduces quick power fluctuations, while coherent crosstalk varies the optical power of the optical signal in optical interconnection networks (OINs). As a result, the accumulative crosstalk in large scale OINs considerably hurts the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and imposes high power penalties. In this work, we aim at studying the worst-case incoherent and coherent crosstalk in OINs at the system level. The proposed analytical models are integrated into a newly developed crosstalk and loss analysis platform, called CLAP, to facilitate the SNR analyses in arbitrary OINs.

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@article{m2014010f04801f23c5f6822b484a66232bf7ec18cd97,
  title  = {CLAP: a crosstalk and loss analysis platform for optical interconnects},
  author = {M. Nikdast and Luan H. K. Duong and Jiang Xu and S. L. Beux and Xiaowen Wu and Zhehui Wang and Peng Yang and Yaoyao Ye},
  journal = {ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chips},
  year   = {2014},
  doi    = {10.1109/NOCS.2014.7008779}
}

Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants programme and by the Fonds de recherche du Québec — Nature et technologies (FRQNT).