Low-latency wavelength-switched clock-synchronized intra-data center interconnects enabled by hollow core fiber
Low-latency wavelength-switched clock-synchronized intra-data center interconnects enabled by hollow core fiber
Fast (nanoseconds) optical wavelength switching is emerging as a viable solution to scaling the size and capacity of intra-data center interconnection. A key enabling technology for such systems is low-jitter optical clock synchronization, which enables sub-nanosecond clock and data recovery for optically switched frames using low-cost methods such as clock phase caching. We propose and demonstrate real-time low-latency wavelength-switched clock-synchronized intra-data center interconnection at 51.2 GBd using a fast tunable laser (with ns scale switching time) and ultra-stable-latency hollow core fiber (HCF) for optically-switched data center networks. For wavelength-switched systems, we achieve a physical layer latency below 46 ns, consisting of 28 ns transceiver latency and a 18 ns inter-packet gap. Finally, we show that by exploiting the low chromatic dispersion and thermally-stable latency features of HCF, active clock phase tracking can be entirely eliminated.
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Zhou, Zichuan, Dzieciol, Hubert, Luo, Yuan, Clark, Kari A., Richardson, David J., Poletti, Francesco, Bayvel, Polina, Slavík, Radan and Liu, Zhixin
(2023)
Low-latency wavelength-switched clock-synchronized intra-data center interconnects enabled by hollow core fiber.
Optics Express, 31 (15), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.487320).
Abstract
Fast (nanoseconds) optical wavelength switching is emerging as a viable solution to scaling the size and capacity of intra-data center interconnection. A key enabling technology for such systems is low-jitter optical clock synchronization, which enables sub-nanosecond clock and data recovery for optically switched frames using low-cost methods such as clock phase caching. We propose and demonstrate real-time low-latency wavelength-switched clock-synchronized intra-data center interconnection at 51.2 GBd using a fast tunable laser (with ns scale switching time) and ultra-stable-latency hollow core fiber (HCF) for optically-switched data center networks. For wavelength-switched systems, we achieve a physical layer latency below 46 ns, consisting of 28 ns transceiver latency and a 18 ns inter-packet gap. Finally, we show that by exploiting the low chromatic dispersion and thermally-stable latency features of HCF, active clock phase tracking can be entirely eliminated.
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Accepted/In Press date: 15 June 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 July 2023
Published date: 17 July 2023
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Funding. National Natural Science Foundation of China (62102343); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P030181/1, EP/R035342/1, EP/V051377/1).
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/483424
ISSN: 1094-4087
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