Optical Interconnects Set to Achieve Bandwidth Benchmark
Countless emails, text messages, pictures, and videos are posted on social media every day, along with unfathomable amounts of data that must be processed by the likes of Amazon and Google. All of this information must be stored and processed in data centers in the cloud. These data centers typically feature buildingwide optical fiber networks that comprise hundreds of thousands of optical links connected to server racks through a complex network of fiber optic cable. Today, 100-Gb/s optical...
Photonics Spectra, July 2018