METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO OPTICAL NETWORKS

摘要

Data center interconnections, which encompass WSCs as well as traditional data centers, have become both a bottleneck and a cost/power issue for cloud computing providers, cloud service providers and the users of the cloud generally. Fiber optic technologies already play critical roles in data center operations and will increasingly in the future. The goal is to move data as fast as possible with the lowest latency with the lowest cost and the smallest space consumption on the server blade and throughout the network. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for new fiber optic interconnection architectures to address the traditional hierarchal time-division multiplexed (TDM) routing and interconnection and provide reduced latency, increased flexibility, lower cost, lower power consumption, and provide interconnections exploiting N×M×D Gbps photonic interconnects wherein N channels are provided each carrying M wavelength division signals at D Gbps.

主权项

1. A device comprising:
a pluggable optic housing; a pair of optical connectors or pigtails coupled to a receiver and a transmitter position allowing the daisy-chaining of multiple instances of the device as well as point to point connectivity between two instances of the device onto two fibers; and a tunable optical wavelength selective circuit comprising a plurality of wavelength selective filters and a rotatable microoptoelectromechanical system (MOEMS) for selecting a wavelength selective filter of the plurality of wavelength selective filters to tune the tunable optical wavelength selective circuit.