Physical-Layer Modeling and System-Level Design of Chip-Scale Photonic Interconnection Networks
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...The fundamental limits for the number of WDM channels and power per channel when using building blocks that include silicon waveguides, silicon microring modulators, and filters were described in [17]....
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...Chan et al. [14] proposed a methodology to characterize and model basic photonic blocks, which can form full photonic network architectures, and used a physical-layer simulator to assess the physical-layer and system-level performance of a photonic network....
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...With link-level simulation, the primary concern is detailed physical modeling of all the end-to-end aspects of a photonic path to determine performance metrics such as signal integrity and link reliability....
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