Photonic Switching
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2020) | Viewed by 11433
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical interconnects; optical RAM and optical buffering; optical access and radio-over-fiber networks; optical signal processing for data routing and switching; biophotonics
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Interests: optical interconnects; Si photonics; optical switching and buffering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the advent of photonic integration and the emerging architectural transformations that take place in several network segments, photonic switching has been gaining increased interest trying to identify the sweet spot where significant energy and performance benefits can be offered without, however, necessitating major changes in the overlying protocol stack. Photonic switch-based technologies and architectures appear as appealing candidates for a range of network sectors, starting from DataCenter environments in view of the intended resource disaggregation; proceeding through 5G network fronthauling, where ultra-low low-latency switching is targeted; to long-haul communications, where wavelength selective switches have been already established among the main technology vehicles. In all these network environments, photonic integration plays a major role in enabling on-chip photonic switch engines with low-energy and low-footprint capabilities. To this end, this Special Issue aims to consolidate the latest research in photonic switching along all possible network segments, reporting on the main advances on architectures and enabling switch technologies, including, of course, integrated switches.
Prof. Dr. Nikos Pleros
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Vyrsokinos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Photonic switching for data centers
- Photonic switching for computing
- Photonic switching for 5G networks
- Wavelength selective switches
- Integrated photonic switches
- Novel switch architectures for both packet- and circuit-switching
- Low-latency and high-bandwidth photonic switch fabrics
- Photonic switch technologies
- Low-energy photonic switching
- Machine-learning-aided photonic switching
- Software-controlled photonic switch fabrics.
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