Light as the carrier
A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.
What a strand of glass or a waveguide on a die can be made to carry. The answer keeps turning out to be parallelism rather than speed — more wavelengths, more spatial paths — and what these papers disagree about is which kind is worth the integration cost.
15 references
Terabits without fibres
Zhenyu Xie et al. (2025) · Light: Science & Applications
A New Operational Paradigm for IPoDWDM Networks
Steven J. Hand et al. (2024) · IEEE Access
On the capacity of optical backbone networks
João J. O. Pires (2024) · Network
Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics
Sudip Shekhar et al. (2024) · Nature Communications
Technological Prospection and Requirements of 800G Transmission Systems for Ultra-long-haul All-optical Terrestrial Backbone Networks
Dechao Zhang et al. (2023) · Journal of Lightwave Technology
Principles of Photonic Integrated Circuits: Materials, Device Physics, Guided Wave Design
Richard Osgood Jr et al. (2021)
HPC Interconnects at the End of Moore's Law
John Shalf (2019) · Optical Fiber Communication Conference
Fiber-optic transmission and networking: the previous 20 and the next 20 years [Invited]
Peter J. Winzer et al. (2018) · Optics Express
Silicon Photonics: Electromagnetic theory
Wouter J. Westerveld et al. (2017)
Optical Communication: Its History and Recent Progress
Govind P. Agrawal (2016) · Optics in Our Time
Capacity Trends and Limits of Optical Communication Networks
René-Jean Essiambre et al. (2012) · Proceedings of the IEEE
Advanced ROADM Networks
M. D. Feuer et al. (2012) · National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
The role of optics in future high radix switch design
Nathan Binkert et al. (2011) · Proceedings of the 38th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '11)
Quantum Communications in Reconfigurable Optical Networks: DWDM QKD through a ROADM
N. A. Peters et al. (2010) · Optical Fiber Communication Conference
Evolution of Terrestrial Optical System and Core Network Architecture
Andreas Gladisch et al. (2006) · Proceedings of the IEEE