Optical systems for data centers

Building future data centers requires unprecedented internal bandwidth, at very high per-channel energy efficiency. Optics offers potential solutions for these challenges, especially if we rethink the construction of high-performance computers into compact systems-in-a-package. Here we discuss the drivers for optics in these large-scale systems.

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