Fast Photonic Switch Architecture for Interconnect Applications

A fast photonic switching architecture is proposed for interconnection in computing and datacentre. Use of both modular switching building blocks and an intelligent routing scheme offer a nonblocking, scalable, fast routing time of O(logN) and very low same wavelength crosstalk.

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