{"id":1432,"date":"2021-10-28T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2023-08-24T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:42:23","slug":"new-intel-research-center-integrated-photonics-for-data-center-interconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/2021\/10\/28\/new-intel-research-center-integrated-photonics-for-data-center-interconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Center: Integrated Photonics for Data Center Interconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PHOTONICSdc-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PHOTONICSdc-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PHOTONICSdc-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PHOTONICSdc-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PHOTONICSdc-465x262.png 465w, https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PHOTONICSdc-695x391.png 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s data centers are consuming megawatts of power, and the accelerating trend of exponential growth in data center traffic is a huge concern.\u00a0 Distinguished Professor S. J. Ben Yoo (Electrical and Computer Engineering) is one of the six principal investigators invited to participate in the new Intel Research Center on Integrated Photonics for Data Center Interconnect.\u00a0 Prof. Yoo&#8217;s work pursues 10x-100x improvements in energy efficiency, density, and temperature dependence; his team will pursue extremely energy-efficient (150 fJ\/b), athermal, high-capacity (> 40 Tb\/s Duplex), and high-density (> 16 Tb\/s\/mm) silicon photonic transceivers that can operate robustly across 0-100<sup>o<\/sup>C temperature range. \u00a0In addition to his new generation of silicon-photonic modulators, nanodetectors, and silicon photonic integrated circuits, he will be pursuing co-design\/co-integration of photonic ICs and electronic ICs together with Prof. Sam Palermo of Texas A&amp;M.\u00a0 The total amount of funding given to the consortium of six is undisclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s data centers are consuming megawatts of power, and the accelerating trend of exponential growth in data center traffic is<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/2021\/10\/28\/new-intel-research-center-integrated-photonics-for-data-center-interconnect\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-sansinghucdavis-edu","post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-photonic-integrated-circuit-design-and-fabrication-project","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}