Large Scale Silicon Photonics Matrix for Low Power and Low Cost Data Centers

Project Information

L3MATRIX

Grant agreement ID: 688544

DOI 10.3030/688544

Project closed

EC signature date 12 November 2015

Start date 1 December 2015

End date 31 May 2019

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 3 836 186,25

EU contribution € 3 123 966,25

Coordinated by

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
Germany

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (6)

Project Webpage Online
Project First Newsletter
Project Promotional Video
Final Press Release
Project Final Newsletter
Project Second Newsletter

Documents, reports (3)

Final Publishable Activity Report
Report on L3MATRIX application scenario in the data centre
General publications, presentations and patents

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

First Project Press release

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

An all-optical neuron with sigmoid activation function

Author(s): G. Mourgias-Alexandris, A. Tsakyridis, N. Passalis, A. Tefas, K. Vyrsokinos, N. Pleros
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 27/7, 2019, Page(s) 9620, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.009620

Monolithically Integrated CMOS-Compatible III–V on Silicon Lasers

Author(s): Marc Seifried, Gustavo Villares, Yannick Baumgartner, Herwig Hahn, Mattia Halter, Folkert Horst, Daniele Caimi, Charles Caer, Marilyne Sousa, Roger Franz Dangel, Lukas Czornomaz, Bert Jan Offrein
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Issue 24/6, 2018, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2018.2832654

Fiber-to-Chip Spot-Size Converter for Coupling to Silicon Waveguides in the O-Band

Author(s): Roberto Larrea, Ana M. Gutierrez, Amadeu Griol, Antoine Brimont, Pablo Sanchis
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Issue 31/1, 2019, Page(s) 31-34, ISSN 1041-1135
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2018.2881334

Optical Content Addressable Memory Matchline for 2-bit Address Look-Up at 10 Gb/s

Author(s): G. Mourgias-Alexandris, C. Vagionas, A. Tsakyridis, P. Maniotis, N. Pleros
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Issue 30/9, 2018, Page(s) 809-812, ISSN 1041-1135
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2018.2817928

High-port low-latency optical switch architecture with optical feed-forward buffering for 256-node disaggregated data centers

Author(s): Nikos Terzenidis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Nikos Pleros
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 26/7, 2018, Page(s) 8756, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.008756

All-optical 10Gb/s ternary-CAM cell for routing look-up table applications

Author(s): George Mourgias-Alexandris, Christos Vagionas, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Pavlos Maniotis, Nikos Pleros
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 26/6, 2018, Page(s) 7555, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.007555

Optically-Enabled Bloom Filter Label Forwarding Using a Silicon Photonic Switching Matrix

Author(s): N. Terzenidis, M. Moralis-Pegios, C. Vagionas, S. Pitris, E. Chatzianagnostou, P. Maniotis, D. Syrivelis, L. Tassiulas, A. Miliou, N. Pleros, K. Vyrsokinos
Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 35/21, 2017, Page(s) 4758-4765, ISSN 0733-8724
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1109/jlt.2017.2760013

"Multicasting in a High-Port Sub-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=""LaTeX"">$\mu$ </tex-math> </inline-formula>sec Latency Hipo<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=""LaTeX"">$\lambda$ </tex-math> </inline-formula>aos Optical Packet Switch"

Author(s): N. Terzenidis, M. Moralis-Pegios, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, K. Vyrsokinos, N. Pleros
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Issue 30/17, 2018, Page(s) 1535-1538, ISSN 1041-1135
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2018.2859032

Silicon Photonics towards Disaggregation of Resources in Data Centers

Author(s): Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikolaos Terzenidis, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 8/1, 2018, Page(s) 83, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app8010083

Multicast-Enabling Optical Switch Design Employing Si Buffering and Routing Elements

Author(s): M. Moralis-Pegios, N. Terzenidis, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, M. Cherchi, M. Harjanne, T. Aalto, A. Miliou, K. Vyrsokinos, N. Pleros
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Issue 30/8, 2018, Page(s) 712-715, ISSN 1041-1135
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2018.2813012

High-Port and Low-Latency Optical Switches for Disaggregated Data Centers: The Hipoλaos Switch Architecture [Invited]

Author(s): N. Terzenidis, M. Moralis-Pegios, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, T. Alexoudi, K. Vyrsokinos, N. Pleros
Published in: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Issue 10/7, 2018, Page(s) B102, ISSN 1943-0620
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/jocn.10.00b102

On-Chip SOI Delay Line Bank for Optical Buffers and Time Slot Interchangers

Author(s): M. Moralis-Pegios, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, N. Terzenidis, M. Cherchi, M. Harjanne, T. Aalto, A. Miliou, N. Pleros, K. Vyrsokinos
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Issue 30/1, 2018, Page(s) 31-34, ISSN 1041-1135
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2017.2773146

Low-resistive, CMOS-compatible ohmic contact schemes to moderately doped n-InP

Author(s): Herwig Hahn, Marilyne Sousa, Lukas Czornomaz
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Issue 50/23, 2017, Page(s) 235102, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aa6f7a

Conference proceedings (28)

Experimental demonstration of an optical neuron with a logistic Sigmoid activation function

Author(s): George Mourgias-Alexandris, Apostolos Tsakyridis, Nikolaos Passalis, Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Pleros
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2019, 2019, Page(s) Th2A.37, ISBN 978-1-943580-53-8
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2019.th2a.37

CMOS-Compatible Hybrid III-V/Si Photodiodes Using a Lateral Current Collection Scheme

Author(s): Yannick Baumgartner, Charles Caer, Marc Seifried, Gustavo Villares, D. Caimi, Thomas Morf, Jerome Faist, Bert J. Offrein, Lukas Czornomaz
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2018, Page(s) 1-3, ISBN 978-1-5386-4862-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc.2018.8535117

Efficient and Optimized 25 Gb/s Slow-Light SOI Modulator in the O-Band with Slow-wave Electrodes for Low Power Optical Interconnects

Author(s): A. Zanzi, A. Rosa, A. Griol, P. Sanchis, J. Marti and A. Brimont
Published in: 20th European conference on integrated optics, 2018, Page(s) 294-296, ISBN 978-84-09-20653-1
Publisher: Viajes El Corte Inglés, S. A.

The 5G fronthaul and enabling silicon photonics technology

Author(s): Roberto Llorente, Maria Morant, Antoine Brimont, Pablo Sanchis
Published in: Broadband Access Communication Technologies XIII, 2019, Page(s) 7, ISBN 9781-510625334
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2511902

Sub-μs Latency High-Port Optical Packet Switch Fabrics for Disaggregated Computing: The Hipoλaos OPS Architecture

Author(s): M. Moralis-Pegios, N. Terzenidis, G. Mourgias-Alexandris, K. Vyrsokinos, N. Pleros
Published in: 2018 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2018, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-5386-6605-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icton.2018.8473831

Implementation of an all-optical buffer & TimeSlot-interchanger based on integrated SOI delay lines

Author(s): George Mourgias-Alexandris, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikos Terzenidis, Nikos Pleros, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos
Published in: 2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET), 2017, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-5386-2287-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/pacet.2017.8259961

A low-latency high-port count optical switch with optical delay line buffering for disaggregated data centers

Author(s): George Mourgias-Alexandris, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikos Terzenidis, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Nikos Pleros
Published in: Optical Interconnects XVIII, 2018, Page(s) 4, ISBN 9781-510615625
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2289813

Dual-layer Locality-Aware Optical Interconnection Architecture for Latency-Critical Resource Disaggregation Environments

Author(s): Terzenidis Nikolaos, Moralis-Pegios Miltiadis, Alexoudi Theonitsa, Pitris Stelios, Vyrsokinos Konstantinos, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: ONDM 2019 23rd Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling, Issue May 13-16, 2019, 2019
Publisher: Springer

A 10Gb/s All-Optical Match-line for optical Content Addressable Memory CAM Rows

Author(s): G. Mourgias-Alexandris, C. Vagionas, A. Tsakyridis, P. Maniotis, N. Pleros
Published in: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2018, Page(s) W2A.39, ISBN 978-1-943580-38-5
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2018.w2a.39

Multicasting in a 256-Port Sub-<tex>$\mu \text{sec}$</tex> Latency <tex>$\text{Hipo}\lambda\text{aos}$</tex> Switch Architecture for Disaggregated DataCenters

Author(s): Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikos Terzenidis, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Konstantinos Vyrsoklnos, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2018, Page(s) 1-3, ISBN 978-1-5386-4862-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc.2018.8535485

Optical time-slot interchanger and Si-based delay lines towards integrated feed-forward buffers

Author(s): Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Theonitsa Alexoudi, Matteo Cherchi, Mikko Harjanne, Timo Aalto, Nikos Pleros, Konstaninos Vyrsokinos
Published in: 2017 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM), 2017, Page(s) 21-22, ISBN 978-1-5090-6571-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/phosst.2017.8012631

Photonics for Disaggregated DataCenter and Computercom Architectures

Author(s): Nikos Terzenidis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Stelios Pitris, Theoni Alexoudi and Nikos Pleros
Published in: 4th International Workshop on Advanced Interconnect Solutions and Technologies for Emerging Computing Systems (AISTECS) 2019 co-located with the 14th HiPEAC, Issue January 21, 2019, 2019
Publisher: ACM

Optics for Disaggregating DataCenters and Disintegrating Computing

Author(s): Nikos Terzenidis; Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios; George Mourgias-Alexandris; Apostolos Tsakyridis; Christos Vagionas; Konstantinos Vyrsokinos; Theoni Alexoudi; Charoula Mitsolidou; Nikos Pleros
Published in: ONDM 2019 23rd Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling, Issue May 13-16, 2019, 2019
Publisher: Springer

A 1024-Port sub-<tex>$\mu\text{see}$</tex> Latency Optical Packet Switch Using the <tex>$\text{Hipo}\lambda \text{aos} \lambda$</tex>-Routed Modified Spanke Switch Architecture

Author(s): Nikos Terzenldis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Kostantinos Vyrsokinos, Nikos Pleros
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2018, Page(s) 1-3, ISBN 978-1-5386-4862-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecoc.2018.8535407

All-optical Ternary Content Addressable Memory (T-CAM) Cell for ultra-fast Address Look-ups in Router Applications

Author(s): G. Mourgias-Alexandris, C. Vagionas, A. Tsakyridis, P. Maniotis, N. Pleros
Published in: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2018, Page(s) STh3B.7, ISBN 978-1-943580-42-2
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2018.sth3b.7

Optical Thresholding Device with a Sigmoidal Transfer Function

Author(s): Mourgias-Alexandris George, Tsakyridis Apostolos, Alexoudi Theonitsa, Vyrsokinos Konstantinos, Pleros Nikolaos
Published in: PSC 2018, 2018
Publisher: PSC

A low-latency optical switch architecture using integrated um SOI-based contention resolution and switching

Author(s): Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Nikos Terzenidis, Matteo Cherchi, Mikko Harjanne, Timo Aalto, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Nikos Pleros, George Mourgias-Alexandris
Published in: Optical Interconnects XVIII, 2018, Page(s) 7, ISBN 9781-510615625
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2289920

Optical packet forwarding and time rearrangement based on double wavelength conversion with SOA-MZI gates

Author(s): Konstantinos Vyrsokinos
Published in: 2017 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2017, Page(s) 1-1, ISBN 978-1-5386-0859-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icton.2017.8024892

CMOS-embedded III-V on Silicon laser sources

Author(s): G. Villares, M. Seifried, H. Hahn, L. Czornomaz, Ch. Caer, Y. Baumgartner, F. Horst, R. Dangel, D. Caimi, M, Sousa, N. Meier, J. Fompeyrine, and B. J. Offrein
Published in: International Meeting on Integrated Photonics, Shanghai, China, 2017, 2017
Publisher: International Meeting on Integrated Photonics

Chip-scale disaggregated computing via Silicon Photonics: can be more than replacing a link!

Author(s): N. Pleros
Published in: ECOC 2017, Workshop on Silicon Photonics, 2017
Publisher: ECOC 2017

Advanced High Speed Slow Light Silicon Modulators in the O-Band for Low Power Optical Interconnects in Data Centers

Author(s): A. Zanzi, A. Rosa, A. Griol, P. Sanchis, J. Marti and A. Brimont
Published in: 14th International Conference on Group IV Photonics Conference, Berlin, Germany August 2017, 2017
Publisher: 14th International Conference on Group IV Photonics Conference

Silicon modulators and switches for Data Centers

Author(s): A. Brimont
Published in: Microphotonics Conference, Berlin, Germany, 2016, 2016
Publisher: Microphotonics Conference

Investigation of Silicon Nanophotonic Single-Mode Polarization Insensitive Waveguides

Author(s): Dimitris Chatzitheocharis, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos and Sotirios Ves
Published in: XXXII Panhellenic Conference on Solid State Physics & Materials Science, September 2016, Ioannina, Greece, 2016
Publisher: XXXII Panhellenic Conference on Solid State Physics & Materials Science

Towards electro-optical integration of hybrid III-V on Si lasers into the BEOL of a CMOS technology

Author(s): H. Hahn, M. Seifried, G. Villares, Y. Baumgartner, M. Halter, C. Caer, D. Caimi, M. Sousa, R. Dangel, N. Meier, F. Horst, L. Czornomaz, B. J. Offrein
Published in: 2017 75th Annual Device Research Conference (DRC), 2017, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-1-5090-6328-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/drc.2017.7999518

Optical Buffering and Time-Slot Interchanger with integrated Si-based delay lines

Author(s): Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, George Mourgias-Alexandris, Nikos Terzenidis, Matteo Cherchi, Mikko Harjanne, Timo Aalto, Amalia Miliou, Nikos Pleros, Kostantinos Vyrsokinos
Published in: Advanced Photonics 2017 (IPR, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, PS), 2017, Page(s) PTu1D.2, ISBN 978-1-943580-30-9
Publisher: OSA
DOI: 10.1364/ps.2017.ptu1d.2

Design of a High Speed Silicon Modulator Based on a Vertical pn Junction at 1.31 μm Wavelegnth

Author(s): A. Zanzi, A.Brimont, P.Sanchis and J.Marti
Published in: 18th European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO), Varsaw, 2016, 2016
Publisher: 18th European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO)

Design and Optimization of a High Speed Slow-light Silicon modulator in the O-band

Author(s): A. Zanzi, P.Sanchis, J.Marti and A.Brimont
Published in: 19th European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO), Eindhoven, 2017, 2017
Publisher: 19th European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO)

CMOS-embedded lasers for advanced silicon photonic devices

Author(s): M. Seifried, H. Hahn, G. Villares, F. Horst, D. Caimi, C. Caer, Y. Baumgartner, M. Sousa, R. Dangel, L. Czornomaz, B. J. Offrein
Published in: 2017 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2017, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-5386-0859-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icton.2017.8024828

Book chapters (1)

Optoelectronic Devices Integrated on Silicon

Author(s): Bert Jan Offrein, Herwig Hahn, Marc Seifried
Published in: High Mobility Materials for CMOS Applications, 2018, Page(s) 307-338, ISBN 9780-081020616
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-102061-6.00009-4

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (6)

Adiabatic coupling between III-V stacks and Si-waveguides cladded with higher refractive index materials

Application/Publication number: USPTO 92343600
Date: 2017-02-22
Applicant(s): IBM RESEARCH GMBH

Low-resistive CMOS-compatible Au-free ohmic contact to n-InP

Application/Publication number: USPTO 92343448
Date: 2016-07-21
Applicant(s): IBM RESEARCH GMBH

HIGH-FREQUENCY OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE

Application/Publication number: USPTO 15663854
Date: 2019-05-31

Transverse mode filter for hybrid III-V on silicon lasers

Application/Publication number: USPTO 92343631
Date: 2017-03-22
Applicant(s): IBM RESEARCH GMBH

Thin laterally homogenous electric field vertical current injection laser

Application/Publication number: USPTO 92343640
Date: 2017-02-22
Applicant(s): IBM RESEARCH GMBH

Hybrid Vertical Current Injection Electro-Optical Device with Refractive-Index-Matched Current Blocking Layer

Application/Publication number: CH 820170008
Date: 2019-05-31
Applicant(s): IBM RESEARCH GMBH