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OPTOPUS: Optical Backplane for Data Center Switches

Michael Tan, Paul Rosenberg, Georgios Panotopoulos, Moray McLaren, Wayne Sorin, Sagi Mathai, Lennie Kiyama, Joe Straznicky, and David Warren

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Abstract

An all optically connected data center switch with a Multi-Bus Optical Backplane is demonstrated. The broadcast bus is based on a multimode zig-zag star coupler capable of 1:6 optical broadcast on 12 multi-mode GI fiber channels.

© 2014 Optical Society of America

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