WO2009154592A1 - Optical broadcast systems and methods - Google Patents
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- Embodiments of the present invention relate to distributing optical signals on an optical broadcast system.
- a node can be a processing element also called a core and other devices such as caches, input/output, and memory.
- a desirable feature is that an on-chip broadcast bus provides any one node communication with all nodes on the chip, which is called "any-to-all" communication.
- any node which can drive the bus can broadcast information over the bus to all nodes that tap the bus. For example, a broadcast can be used to maintain coherency of any given core's cache.
- Hierarchical buses have been proposed, such as a bus connected to eight nodes, and sets of buses connected with peer-to-peer links. See e.g., "Interconnections in Multi-core Architectures: Understanding Mechanisms, Overheads, and Scaling," by R. Kumar, V. Zyuan, and D. M. Tullsen, SIGARCH Computer Architecure News 33, 2, pp. 408-419 (May 2005).
- most electrical multi-core processor solutions avoid broadcast interconnects altogether in favor of one-to-one interconnects, such as a mesh. Where broadcast functionality is necessary, broadcast messages are broken down into identical one-to-one messages for each core. Docket No. 200801444
- An optical bus promises a much higher bandwidth, lower power and lower latency when compared to an electrical bus.
- one-to-all bus configurations made up of a number of fixed-sender broadcast buses do not scale well with respect to power and surface area, because as many buses as senders are needed.
- an optical, scalable broadcast bus that exhibits low-latency and high-bandwidth is desired.
- an on-chip version of such an optical, scalable bus is highly desirable.
- an optical broadcast system for broadcasting information from any node to all other nodes of a system includes an optical broadcast bus comprising a modulator portion and a detector portion. Each of the nodes controls a modulator optically coupled to the modulator portion, and each node controls a detector optically coupled to the detector portion.
- An optical power source injects unmodulated light into the optical broadcast bus which a modulator at a node modulates under the control of its node to generate one or more optical signals carrying information from its respective node on the broadcast bus.
- the optical broadcast bus is configured so that the modulator portion passes each node's modulator.
- the modulator portion is followed by the detector portion which passes each node's detector., Each detector is optically coupled to the detector portion so that all of the nodes receive the optical signals generated by the modulators.
- Another embodiment in accordance with the present invention comprises, a method for broadcasting information from any node to all nodes of a system. The method comprises injecting unmodulated light into an optical broadcast bus having a modulator portion and a detector portion. The optical broadcast bus has a wrap-around configuration wherein the modulator portion passes each node followed by the detector portion passing each node. The method continues with arbitrating to determine which Docket No. 200801444
- node or nodes can broadcast over the optical broadcast bus, and the node or nodes modulating the unmodulated light in the modulator portion of the optical broadcast bus to produce optical signals that travel from the modulation portion into the detector portion.
- the optical signals are received at all of the nodes in the detector portion of the optical broadcast bus.
- injecting unmodulated light into the bus waveguide includes injecting multiple wavelengths of light into the bus waveguide using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) or dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM).
- WDM wavelength division multiplexing
- DWDM dense wavelength division multiplexing
- Figure IA shows a schematic representation of a first optical broadcast system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure IB shows a tree topology of a first optical broadcast tree system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 1C shows a schematic representation of the first optical broadcast tree system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure ID- IE shows tree topologies of two optical broadcast tree systems configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 2 shows a modulator configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 3 shows three plots representing intensity modulation of unmodulated light in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 4 shows a detector optically coupled to the bus waveguide via a branching waveguide and an optical tap in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 5 A shows a top view of an evanescent coupler configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. Docket No. 200801444
- Figure 5B shows a cross-sectional view of the coupler along a line 5B-5B, shown in Figure 5 A, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 6 shows a schematic representation of an arbitration system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 7 shows a control-flow diagram illustrating a method of broadcasting over an optical broadcast system in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 8A shows an isometric view of a microring resonator and a portion of an adjacent ridge waveguide configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 8B shows a plot of transmittance versus wavelength for a microring in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 9A shows the microring resonator used as a photodetector in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 9B shows the microring resonator used to couple an optical signal from a first waveguide into a second waveguide in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 10 shows a schematic representation and top view of doped regions surrounding a microring and ridge waveguide in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Embodiments of the present invention are directed to optical broadcast systems for broadcasting information over a system of nodes.
- the optical broadcast system enables any one node to broadcast to all nodes of a system and is also referred to as an any-to-all optical broadcast system.
- node refers to a core, a cache, an input/output device, and memory, or any other processing, transmitting, or storing device
- system of nodes can refer to a computer system for example.
- An any-to- all optical broadcast communication system can be power and latency efficient in any system of nodes where there are multiple processing elements with a requirement for one node to provide the same data to multiple other nodes. Examples of such systems include Docket No. 200801444
- Broadcast system and method embodiments are described below with reference to schematic representations of different kinds of optical broadcast systems. Those skilled in the art will immediately recognize that these broadcast systems and methods can be readily scaled up or down to provide broadcasting capabilities for systems having different numbers of nodes.
- FIG. IA shows a schematic representation of a first optical broadcast system 100 configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the broadcast system 100 provides optical broadcasting capabilities for each of N nodes, where N is a whole number. As shown in the example of Figure IA, only six of the N nodes are represented, and the nodes are labeled in this example in a clockwise manner 1 through N.
- the broadcast system 100 includes an optical broadcast bus composed of bus waveguide 102 that is optically coupled at one end to an optical power source 104 which injects unmodulated light into the waveguide.
- the bus waveguide 102 includes three portions, a modulator portion 106, a detector portion 108 that follows the modulator portion 106, and a connector portion 107 that connects the modulator portion 106 to the detector portion 108.
- tracing the path of the waveguide 102 in a clockwise manner from the source 104 reveals the modulator portion 106 of the waveguide 102 that passes each of the N nodes and the detector portion 108 of the waveguide 102 that also passes each of the N nodes and terminates at node N.
- the wrap-around arrangement of the bus waveguide 102 enables the bus waveguide 102 to pass each of the N nodes twice in this example, once for modulation and once for detection.
- the bus waveguide 102 can be a single waveguide or can be made up of a set of waveguides that traverse the wrap-around arrangement. Docket No. 200801444
- the broadcast system 100 includes N modulators optically coupled to the modulator portion 106.
- Each modulator is in optical communication with the waveguide 102 and in electronic communication with an associated node.
- modulators 109-114 are in optical communication with the modulator portion 106 of the waveguide 102 and in electronic communication with nodes 1, 2, j, j + l , N - 1 , and N, respectively.
- a node When a node is to send information, it sends the information to its associated modulator which generates an optical signal carrying the information by modulating a wavelength of the unmodulated light traversing the waveguide 102.
- a more detailed description of the configuration and operation of examples of modulators is provided below in a second subsection titled Modulators.
- the broadcast system 100 also includes N detectors optically coupled to the detector portion 106 of the waveguide 102. Each detector is in electronic communication with an associated node. Thus, the detector can receive an optical signal and convert the information it carries to an electronic signal which it communicates to its associated node.
- the optical broadcast bus also includes optical taps and branching waveguides that enable the detectors to optically communicate with the waveguide 102. For example, as shown in Figure IA, detectors 116-120 are in electronic communication with nodes 1, 2, j, j + l , and N - 1 , respectively, and in optical communication with the detector portion
- Detector 134 is in direct optical communication with the detector portion 106 of the waveguide 102 and in electronic communication with node N.
- a more detailed description of the configuration and operation of examples of detectors is provided below in a third subsection titled Detectors, and a more detailed description of the configuration and operation of examples of optical taps is provided below in a forth subsection titled Optical Taps.
- the optical power source 104 is configured to output p wavelengths of unmodulated light that are input to the bus waveguide 102 using WDM or DWDM, where p is a whole number.
- the term "light” refers to electromagnetic radiation which can be composed in a variety of different wavelengths. For example, the wavelengths Docket No. 200801444
- directional arrows 136 represent the direction the light propagates along the waveguide 102 passing each modulator in a clockwise direction in this example.
- a single node broadcast information to all of the nodes over the bus waveguide
- node 2 broadcasts information to nodes 1 through N by modulating at most p wavelengths of the unmodulated light transmitted along the waveguide 102 to produce at most p corresponding optical signals that carry the information past the remaining nodes j though N on the modulator portion 106 of the waveguide 102.
- the optical signals then enter the detector portion 108 of the waveguide 102 where each optical tap (e.g. 122, 124) associated with each of the nodes diverts a portion of the optical signal power associated with the optical signals into its branching waveguide (e.g. 128, 130).
- optical taps of the optical broadcast system 100 sequentially divert broadcast optical signals from the bus waveguide 102.
- the optical power losses associated with sequentially diverting an optical signal in this manner can be large.
- the optical power loss can be reduced by configuring an optical broadcast system with a tree-like optical broadcast bus of optical taps.
- Appropriate splitters can be used at waveguide branch points to implement the tree optical broadcast bus in some embodiments. Each splitter is configured to split an incoming optical signal into multiple output optical signals that each carry approximately the same optical power.
- Figure IB shows a tree topology of a first optical broadcast tree system 140 configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the broadcast system 140 includes an optical broadcast tree bus 142 having a binary tree configuration.
- the broadcast tree bus 142 includes a bus waveguide modulator portion 144 that is optically coupled at one end to the source 104.
- the broadcast tree bus 142 is Docket No. 200801444
- the first level includes a root optical tap 146 optically coupled to the bus waveguide modulator portion 144, a second level of optical taps 148, and a third level of optical taps 150.
- each of the optical taps 148 is optically coupled to the root optical tap 146 via waveguide branches, shown in this example implemented with a single branching waveguide 152 and optically coupled to two optical taps 150 via separate branching waveguides 154.
- Figure IB also reveals that each optical tap 150 is coupled to two detectors via separate branching waveguides 156.
- the broadcast tree bus 142 is configured to support broadcast for an eight node system.
- the detectors of the broadcast system 140 are represented by the letter “D” and are each separately identified by subscripts 1-8.
- the broadcast system 140 also includes eight modulators represented by the letter "M,” and each modulator is separately identified by subscripts 1-8.
- the modulators are optically coupled to the bus waveguide modulator portion 144.
- Each modulator and corresponding detector having the same subscript are controlled by the same node.. For example, modulator 3 and detector 3 are electronically coupled to the same node (not shown).
- Figure 1C shows a schematic representation of the first optical broadcast tree system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- Figure 1C reveals one way in which the topology shown in Figure IB can be implemented in a wrap-around arrangement that places each of the modulators 1-8 and corresponding detectors 1-8 in electronic communication with an associated node. This wrap-around arrangement also enables each node to modulate and detect optical signals on the same clock skew.
- the source 104 outputs p wavelengths of unmodulated light into the bus waveguide 144 using WDM or DWDM. Any one of the nodes can broadcast information to all of the nodes over the bus waveguide 142 by controlling an associated modulator to modulate at most p wavelengths of the unmodulated wavelengths of light propagating along the bus waveguide 144 to produce at most p optical signals that carry the information to the branching waveguides.
- the optical taps are identified as 50:50 or 2-way splitters that split each optical signal into two identical Docket No. 200801444
- optical signals each of which has approximately the same optical power.
- all optical signals pass through three optical taps and arrive at the detectors with approximately the same optical power.
- node 3 is in electronic communication with the modulator 3 and can broadcast information to all eight nodes by controlling the modulator 3 to modulate at most p wavelengths of the unmodulated light transmitted along the bus waveguide 144 to produce at most/? corresponding optical signals.
- the root optical tap 146 and optical taps 148 and 150 split the optical signals so that each of the detectors 1-8 receive the same optical signals with approximately the same optical power.
- the broadcast system 140 is merely an example of a broadcast system that employs 50:50 optical taps to broadcast optical signals to eight nodes.
- the broadcast system 140 can be scaled up or down to handle broadcasts for a variety of nodal systems. This can be accomplished by adjusting the number of optical tap levels.
- NSL the number of optical tap levels
- the base 2 of the logarithm corresponds to the 2 optical signals output from the optical taps.
- optical signals pass through 3 optical tap levels.
- the number of optical tap levels is 2, and for a 16 node system, the number of optical tap levels is 4.
- FIG. 1 D shows a tree topology of a second optical broadcast tree system 160 configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the broadcast system 160 includes an optical broadcast tree bus 162 having a quaternary tree configuration.
- the broadcast tree bus 162 includes a bus waveguide modulator portion 164 that is optically coupled at one end to the source 104.
- the broadcast tree bus 162 includes two levels of optical taps. The first level includes a root optical tap 166 optically coupled to the bus waveguide 164, and a second level of optical taps 168. As shown in the example of Figure 1C, each optical tap 168 is optically Docket No. 200801444
- the broadcast tree bus 162 is configured to support broadcast for a 16 node system.
- the detectors of the broadcast system 160 are also represented by the letter “D” and are each separately identified by subscripts 1-16.
- the broadcast system 160 also includes eight modulators represented by the letter "M” that are also separately identified by subscripts 1-16.
- the modulators are optically coupled to the bus waveguide modulator portion 164.
- Each modulator and corresponding detector having the same subscript is in electronic communication with the same node of the sixteen node system (not shown). For example, modulator 2 and detector 2 are electronically coupled to the same node (not shown).
- the source 104 outputs p wavelengths of unmodulated light into the bus waveguide 164 using WDM or DWDM.
- Any one of the nodes can broadcast information to all of the nodes over the bus waveguide 162 by controlling an associated modulator to modulate at most p wavelengths of the unmodulated wavelengths of light propagating along the bus waveguide 164 to produce at most p optical signals that carry the information to the branching waveguides.
- the optical taps are 4-way splitters that split optical signals entering each optical tap into four identical optical signals each of which has approximately the same optical power. Thus, all of the optical signals pass through two optical taps and arrive at the detectors with approximately the same optical power.
- the node in electronic communication with the modulator 2 can broadcast information to all 16 nodes by controlling the modulator 2 to modulate at most p wavelengths of the unmodulated light transmitted along the bus waveguide modulator portion 164 to produce at mostp corresponding optical signals.
- the root optical tap 166 and optical taps 168 in the detector portion of the waveguide split the optical signals so that each of the detectors 1-16 receive the same optical signals with approximately the same optical power.
- the broadcast system 160 is merely an example of a broadcast system that employs 4-way optical taps to broadcast optical signals to 16 nodes.
- the broadcast system 160 can be scaled up or down to handle broadcasts for a variety of different Docket No. 200801444
- log 4 N NSL where the base 4 of the logarithm corresponds to the 4 optical signals output from the optical taps. For example, for the 16 node broadcast system 160, optical signals pass through 2 optical tap levels. For a 4 node system the number of optical tap levels is 1, and for a 32 node system the number of optical tap levels is 4.
- each optical tap level of the optical broadcast bus can be composed of different types of optical taps.
- Figure IE shows a tree topology of a third optical broadcast tree system 180 configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the optical broadcast tree bus 182 is nearly identical to the broadcast tree bus 142 except the 50:50 root optical tap 146, the first level of 50:50 optical taps 148, and connecting branching waveguides 152 and 154 have been replaced by the single root 4-way optical tap 166 with branching waveguide 170 of the broadcast tree bus 162.
- the optical broadcast tree bus detector portion 182 enables optical signals generated by the modulators 1-8 to reach all of the detectors 1-8 with approximately the same optical power.
- Each of the tree topologies represented in the second and third optical broadcast tree systems 160 and 180 can be implemented in a wrap-around arrangement of a modulator portion followed by the detector waveguide portion so that a modulator of a node can broadcast modulated optical signals which can be received by detectors at all of Docket No. 200801444
- wrap-around arrangements also enable each node to modulate and detect optical signals on the same clock skew.
- optical broadcast bus configurations are not limited to the simple bus waveguide configurations shown in Figures IA and 1C. Other configurations are possible depending on how the nodes are arranged.
- the modulator and detectors portions can be configured to pass each of the 64 nodes in an 8x 8 64 node system by configuring the modulator portion and the detector portion of the bus waveguide in a wrap-around arrangement that winds past each of the 64 nodes in a snake- like manner.
- the system clock distrib ⁇ tion follows the same topology as the broadcast so that the relative timing of clock and data is maintained.
- FIG. 2 shows a modulator 202 configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the modulator 202 comprises p resonators, such as resonator 204, disposed adjacent to a bus waveguide 206.
- a resonator is a type of wavelength selective element that can be configured to have resonance with light of a particular wavelength.
- Each resonator is in optical communication with the waveguide 206 and electronically coupled to a node (not shown).
- light composed of p separate, unmodulated wavelengths denoted by X x ... ⁇ p , is output from the optical power source 104 (not shown) and carried by the bus waveguide 206.
- the resonators are each electronically tunable, and each resonator is configured to have resonance with one of the wavelengths X x ... ⁇ p when an appropriate voltage is applied, in which case the resonator is said to be "active.” As shown in Figure 2, each of the resonators is labeled with one of the wavelengths X x ... ⁇ p in order to identify the wavelength that each resonator has resonance with when active. When a resonator is active, it extracts light of Docket No. 200801444
- the resonator While the resonator is active, the intensity or amplitude of the light carried by the waveguide 206 drops at the active resonator. When the voltage is no longer applied, the resonance wavelength of the resonator shifts away from the wavelength of the light, the intensity or amplitude of the light carried by the waveguide 206 returns, and the light propagates undisturbed along the bus waveguide 206 past the resonator. When no voltage is applied to a resonator, the resonator is said to be "inactive.”
- the nodes generate optical signals by applying voltage signals to each of the resonators.
- Each voltage signal is composed of a pattern of "on” and “off or “high” and “low” voltages that represent binary information output from an electronically coupled node.
- an "on” voltage can represent the binary number "0”
- an "off voltage can represent the binary number "1.”
- a pattern of "on” and “off voltages applied to a single resonator causes the resonator to correspondingly switch between active and inactive states, which modulates the amplitude of light of the same wavelength.
- the modulated light is an optical signal composed of a "low” and “high” intensity pattern transmitted along the waveguide 206, where a "low” intensity can represent the binary number "0" and a “high” intensity can represent the binary number "1.”
- the "low” and "high” intensity pattern of the optical signal corresponds to the "on” and "off voltage pattern of the voltage signal.
- Figure 3 shows three plots representing intensity modulation of unmodulated light of a particular wavelength ⁇ k in accordance with a particular voltage pattern provided by a node (not shown).
- a first plot 302 represents the substantially continuous intensity of unmodulated light of the wavelength ⁇ k carried by the waveguide 206 prior to passing the resonator 204.
- a second plot represents a pattern of "on” and “off voltages representing the binary number "01010” generated by the node (not shown) electronically coupled to the modulator 202.
- the voltage pattern of plot 304 is applied to the resonator 204.
- a third plot 304 represents a pattern of "low” and “high” intensities of an optical signal of the same wavelength denoted by ⁇ k carried by the waveguide 206 just after Docket No. 200801444
- Plots 304 and 306 reveal that when an "on" voltage is applied to the resonator 204 for a period of time long enough to represent the binary number "0," the intensity of the light of wavelength ⁇ k near the resonator 204 is low for approximately the same period of time. When the voltage is turned “off for a period of time long enough to represent the binary number "1,” the intensity of the light of wavelength ⁇ k near the resonator 204 is restored for approximately the same period of time.
- the "low” and “high” intensity pattern of the optical signal also represents the binary number “01010.”
- the resonator 204 extracts the light of wavelength ⁇ k from the waveguide 206 causing the intensity of the light passing the resonator 204 to drop accordingly from “high” to “low.”
- the resonance of the resonator 204 shifts away from that of the light, the light ceases being absorbed from the waveguide 206 into the resonator 204, and the intensity of the light passing the resonator 204 is restored to "high.”
- the modulators can be operated at modulation rates in excess of approximately 10 Gbits/sec.
- the p resonators of the modulator 202 can be operated independently to separately modulate each of the p wavelengths of light ⁇ ... ⁇ p to generate p corresponding optical signals denoted by ⁇ ... ⁇ p .
- FIG. 4 shows a detector 402 configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the detector 402 is composed of/? resonators that are electronically coupled to a node (not shown). Unlike the resonators of the modulator 204 described above, the resonators of the detector 402 are kept permanently in the active, resonant state. Instead, each resonator of the detector 402 is configured to have resonance with one of the p optical signals. As a result, each resonator of the detector 402 extracts via evanescent coupling a corresponding wavelength of light. Each resonator of the detector Docket No. 200801444
- a resonator 408 is configured with a detector portion 410.
- An optical signal ⁇ p _ 5 is evanescently coupled into the resonator 408.
- the detector portion 410 converts the "low” and “high” intensity pattern of the optical signal ⁇ p _ 5 trapped in the resonator 408 into a corresponding "on” and "off electrical signal that is transmitted to the electronically coupled node (not shown).
- the p resonators of the detector 402 can operate independently to separately evanescently couple each of the p optical signals ⁇ ... ⁇ p from the branching waveguide
- the optical taps are configured so that each of the N detectors receives each of the p optical signals with approximately the same optical power. This can be accomplished by ideally configuring each optical tap to divert a fraction (R n ) of the optical signal power into an optically coupled branching waveguide in accordance with:
- the bus waveguide 102 and the optical taps contribute to optical power loss that can cause the optical signals to attenuate as the optical signals propagate along the bus waveguide 102.
- D represents the optical power reaching each detector
- b represents the fraction of optical power transmitted after allowing for waveguide and optical tap loss.
- the ratio of diverted to transmitted optical power at optical tap 1 is given by:
- optical tap ratios are given by: Any number of different light diverting devices can be used for the optical taps.
- An evanescent coupler is a kind of optical tap that can be employed in the present invention.
- Figure 5A shows a top view of an evanescent coupler 500 configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- evanescent couplers see "Analysis and design of highly broad-band, planar evanescent couplers," S. J. Hewlett et al., Optical and Quantum Electronics, vol. 28, pp 71-81 (1996).
- the coupler 500 is composed of two ridge waveguides 502 and 504, both of which have curved input/output arms of constant bend radius, which leads to a uniform central region of length L c between dashed-lines 506 and 508, and center-to- center waveguide separation d.
- the ridge waveguide 502 can be a portion of a branching waveguide that carries optical signals to a detector, and the ridge waveguide 504 can be a portion of the broadcasting waveguide 102 that carries the optical signals.
- the waveguides 502 and 504 can have an air cladding, or the waveguides 502 and 504 can be embedded in a material having a relatively smaller refractive index than the material comprising the waveguides.
- the coupler 500 can be designed to take into account the contribution to coupling from the curved input and output arms and from the central region where evanescent coupling is strongest. Docket No. 200801444
- Figure 5B shows a cross-sectional view of the central region of the coupler 500 along a line 5B-5B, shown in Figure 5 A, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the waveguides have different rectangular cross-sectional geometries. As shown in the example of Figure 5B, the waveguides have substantially the same height but different widths, which corresponds to different waveguide aspect ratios of wjh and wjh .
- FP 3 I - F 2 sin 2 ⁇
- ⁇ C O L C /F
- F 2 represents the maximum fractional optical power transfer between waveguides
- C 0 represents the coupling coefficient that exponentially decreases with increasing waveguide separation.
- the optical broadcast systems described above can be implemented in an optical layer on a single chip.
- the chip size can be approximately 25x25 mm and have 64 or more nodes.
- the waveguides can have cross- sectional dimensions of approximately 200x500 run, the modulators and detectors can have lengths ranging from approximately 40-60 ⁇ m, the microrings can be separated by Docket No. 200801444
- the diameter of the microrings can range from approximately 1-20 ⁇ m
- the length L c of the optical taps can range approximately 0.02-1 mm. Note that these dimension ranges represent exemplary ranges and are by no means intended to limit the broad range of dimensions over which optical broadcast systems of the present invention can be employed. Thus, these dimensions and dimension ranges can vary depending on the particular implementation.
- Two nodes may broadcast simultaneously, but the broadcasting nodes may not modulate over each node's broadcast transmission. For example, when unmodulated light passes two nodes on the bus waveguide 102, these nodes may simultaneously broadcast by modulating different wavelengths of the light. For example, returning to Figure IA, assume nodes 1 and j are permitted to broadcast simultaneously on the bus waveguide 102. Node 1 modulates particular wavelengths of the unmodulated light output from the optical power source 104 to produce optical signals that are transmitted on the modulator portion 106 of the bus waveguide 102. If node j modulates the same wavelengths of the optical signals generated by node 1 , the modulation process destroys the information carried by the optical signals generated by node 1.
- node j is modulating already modulated optical signals
- any information node j tries to embed in the optical signals generated by node 1 is also incomprehensible.
- both nodes may broadcast simultaneously.
- each node is granted exclusive use of the optical broadcast bus or certain wavelengths for a period time to broadcast information to all nodes.
- Arbitration can be performed using a well- known electronic-based arbitration system and method, or the arbitration can be performed using an all optical system and method as follows.
- FIG. 6 shows a schematic representation of an arbitration system 600 configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the arbitration system 600 includes a token-ring waveguide 602 and a power waveguide 604 coupled to Docket No. 200801444
- the arbitration system 600 includes N injectors that are each electronically coupled to one of the N nodes and optically coupled to both the token- ring waveguide 602 and the power waveguide 604.
- the arbitration system 600 also includes N diverters that are electronically coupled to each of the N nodes which control them respectively and optically coupled to the token-ring waveguide 602.
- the diverters are disposed in the inner region of, and adjacent to, the token-ring waveguide 602.
- the waveguides 602 and 604 can be ridge waveguides, described below in the subsections Microrings and Ridge Waveguides.
- the source 606 can be the same source 104 or a different optical power source that employs WDM or DWDM to inject unmodulated light composed of different wavelengths into the power waveguide 604.
- the light travels in the direction identified by directional arrows 608.
- Each wavelength of light can be associated with a different resource.
- a resource can be located at a particular node, such as an output port, or a resource can be a common or shared resource that can be used by more than one node, such as an optical broadcast bus or wavelengths of light output from the optical power source 104.
- the wavelength denoted by ⁇ BW output from the source 606 can be assigned to represent an optical broadcast bus.
- Each of the N injectors is also composed of a set of electronically tunable resonators.
- Each resonator can be configured to have resonance with one of the wavelengths of light injected by the source 606.
- a resonator When a resonator is activated by an electronically coupled node, it extracts via evanescent coupling the light from the adjacent power waveguide 604, trapping the extracted light within the resonator for a period of time before the light is transmitted via evanescent coupling into the token-ring waveguide 602. The light then propagates in the token-ring waveguide 602 in the direction identified by directional arrows 610.
- Each of the N diverters is composed of a set of electronically tunable resonators.
- Each of the resonators in a diverter is configured to extract light of a particular wavelength from the token-ring waveguide 602.
- the resonators can be configured with a detector as described above with reference to Figure 4 so that when a resonator extracts light of a particular wavelength, the detector portion generates an electrical signal that is transmitted electronically to an electronically coupled node to indicate that the light has been extracted from the token-ring waveguide 602.
- the token can be in the form a pulse of light of a particular wavelength that conveys the right to use a particular associated resource.
- the token associated with an optical broadcast bus can be represented by the presence of a pulse of light of the wavelength ⁇ BW on the token-ring waveguide 602.
- Arbitration of a resource can be performed using the arbitration system 600 as follows. In general, before arbitration begins, each resource is assigned a particular wavelength of light injected by the source 606 into the power waveguide 604.
- the token with wavelength ⁇ BW is used by the N nodes to determine the availability of a particular resource.
- the token ⁇ BW is circulating on the token-ring waveguide 602, the resource is available for use.
- a node can only use the resource when the node extracts the token ⁇ BW from the token-ring waveguide 602 via a resonator of the diverter electronically coupled to the node.
- the token ⁇ BW is trapped within the resonator and the detector portion transmits electrical signals to the electronically coupled node confirming the presence of the token ⁇ BW .
- the node can then begin using the resource. Other nodes in need of using the resource have to wait until the token ⁇ BW is available on the token- ring waveguide 602.
- the node refreshes the token ⁇ BW on the token-ring waveguide 602 by employing a resonator of the electronically coupled injectors to inject a token with the wavelength ⁇ BW into the token- ring waveguide 602. Docket No. 200801444
- FIG. 7 shows a control-flow diagram illustrating a method for broadcasting over an optical broadcast system in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- step 701 unmodulated light composed of p different wavelengths is injected into a bus waveguide, as described above with reference to Figure 1.
- steps 703-706 are repeated for each broadcast.
- an arbitration method and system such as the method and system described above with reference to Figure 6, is used to determine which a node is permitted to broadcast on the bus waveguide.
- a node with permission to broadcast modulates the unmodulated light to produce optical signals that are placed on the bus waveguide, as described above with reference to Figures 2-3.
- step 705 all of the nodes extract a portion of the optical signals from the bus waveguide, as described above with reference to Figures 4-5.
- step 706 the method returns and restarts for the next broadcast on the bus waveguide.
- the waveguides can be ridge waveguides, and the resonators can be microring resonators.
- Figure 8A shows an isometric view of a microring resonator 802 and a portion of an adjacent ridge waveguide 804 disposed on the surface of a substrate 806 and configured in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- n e ff s the effective refractive index of the microring 802
- C is the circumference of the microring 802
- m is an integer
- ⁇ is the wavelength of an optical signal.
- the product n e ffC is the optical length of the cavity.
- Evanescent coupling is the process by which evanescent waves of light are transmitted from one medium, such as microring, to another medium, such a ridge waveguide, and vice versa.
- evanescent coupling between the microring resonator 802 and the ridge waveguide 804 occurs when the evanescent field generated by light propagating in the waveguide 804 couples into the microring 802.
- the evanescent field gives rise to light that propagates in the microring 802, thereby evanescently coupling the light from the waveguide 804 into the microring 802.
- Figure 8B shows a plot of transmittance versus wavelength for the microring 902 and the waveguide 804 shown in Figure 8 A.
- Horizontal line 808 represents a wavelength axis
- vertical line 810 represents a transmittance axis
- curve 812 represents the transmittance of optical signals passing the microring 802 over a range of wavelengths.
- the transmittance of an optical signal passing the microring 802 is defined by: ⁇ _ out
- the transmittance curve 812 reveals a steep increase in the transmittance the farther the wavelength of an optical signal is away from the wavelengths ⁇ m and ⁇ m+x .
- the strength of the resonance decreases, and the portion of the optical signal coupled from the waveguide 804 into the microring 802 decreases the farther an optical Docket No. 200801444
- Optical signals with wavelengths in the regions 818-820 pass the microring 802 substantially undisturbed.
- microring resonators can be used to detect particular optical signals transmitting along an adjacent waveguide, or microring resonators can be used to couple optical signals of a particular wavelength from one adjacent waveguide into another adjacent waveguide.
- Figure 9A shows the microring resonator 802 coupled to a detector portion 902 in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- An optical signal having a wavelength that is resonant with the microring 802 is evanescently coupled from the waveguide 804 into the microring 802 and remains trapped for a period of time while circulating within the waveguide 802.
- the detector portion 902 can be a SiGe doped region of the microring 802.
- the detector portion 902 absorbs the optical signal circulating in the microring 802 and converts the optical signal into an electronic signal that can be transmitted over signal lines to an electronically coupled node.
- Figure 9B shows the microring resonator 802 used to couple an optical signal from the waveguide 804 into a second waveguide 904 in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- An optical signal having a wavelength that is resonant with the microring 802 is evanescently coupled from the waveguide 804 into the microring 802.
- the optical signal circulates with the microring 802 and is evanescently coupled into the waveguide 904. Note that the optical signal is transmitted along the waveguide 804 in one direction and the optical signal coupled into the second waveguide 904 is transmitted in the opposite direction.
- the microring 802 can be electronically tuned by doping regions of the substrate 806 surrounding the microring 802 and waveguide 804 with appropriate electron donor and electron acceptor atoms or impurities.
- Figure 10 shows a schematic representation and top view of doped regions surrounding the microring 802 and the ridge waveguide 804 in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
- the microring 802 comprises an intrinsic semiconductor.
- a p-tyipe semiconductor region 1001 can be formed in the semiconductor substrate interior of the microring 902, and n- type semiconductor regions 1002 and 1003 can be formed in the semiconductor substrate 806 surrounding the outside of the microring 802 and on the opposite side of the Docket No. 200801444
- The/7-type region 1001 and the «-type regions 1002 and 1003 form a p- i-n junction around the microring 802.
- the dopants can be reversed in order to form an w-type semiconductor region 1001 in substrate interior of the microring 802 and p-type semiconductor regions 1002 and 1003 in the substrate surrounding the outside of the microring 802.
- the electronically tunable microring 802 can be configured to evanescently couple or divert light from an adjacent waveguide when an appropriate voltage is applied to the region surrounding the microring.
- the electronic controlled microring can be configured to evanescently couple or divert light from an adjacent waveguide when an appropriate voltage is applied to the region surrounding the microring.
- n e ' ff C is the optical length of the resonator.
- This optical signal passes the microring 802 undisturbed and the microring 802 is said to be turned “off.”
- the optical signal is now coupled from the waveguide 804 into the microring 802 and the microring 802 is said to be turned “on.”
- the voltage is subsequently turned
- the effective refractive index of the microring 802 shifts back to n e ⁇ and the same optical signal propagates along the waveguide 804 undisturbed.
- system embodiments of the present invention are not limited to microring resonators and ridge waveguides.
- any suitable resonator that can be configured to couple with a particular wavelength of light propagating along a waveguide can be used.
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