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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:48authored byAnthony Rizzo, Asher Novick, Vignesh Gopal, Bok Young Kim, Xingchen Ji, Stuart Daudlin, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Qixiang Cheng, Michal Lipson, Alexander L. Gaeta, Keren Bergman
The exponential growth of computing needs for artificial intelligence and machine learning has had a dramatic impact on data centre energy consumption, which has risen to environmentally significant levels. Using light to send information between compute nodes can dramatically decrease this energy consumption while simultaneously increasing bandwidth. Through wavelength-division multiplexing with chip-based microresonator Kerr frequency combs, independent information channels can be encoded onto many distinct colours of light in the same optical fibre for massively parallel data transmission with low energy. While previous demonstrations have relied on benchtop equipment for filtering and modulating Kerr comb wavelength channels, data centre interconnects require a compact on-chip form factor for these operations. Here, we demonstrate the first integrated silicon photonic transmitter using a Kerr comb source. The demonstrated architecture is scalable to hundreds of wavelength channels, enabling a fundamentally new class of massively parallel terabit-scale optical interconnects for future green hyperscale data centres.
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