Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing and Beyond

Silicon photonics is beginning to play an important role in driving innovations in communication and computation for an increasing number of applications, from health care and biomedical sensors to autonomous driving, datacenter networking, and security. In recent years, there has been a significant amount of effort in industry and academia to innovate, design, develop, analyze, optimize, and fabricate systems employing silicon photonics, shaping the future of not only Datacom and telecom technology but also high-performance computing and emerging computing paradigms, such as optical computing and artificial intelligence. Different from existing books in this area, Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing and Beyond presents a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art technology and research achievements in applying silicon photonics for communication and computation. It focuses on various design, development, and integration challenges, reviews the latest advances spanning materials, devices, circuits, systems, and applications. Technical topics discussed in the book include: • Requirements and thelatest advances in high-performance computing systems• Device- and system-level challenges and latest improvements to deploy silicon photonics in computing systems• Novel design solutions and design automation techniques for silicon photonic integrated circuits• Novel materials, devices, and photonic integrated circuits on silicon• Emerging computing technologies and applications based on silicon photonics Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing and Beyond presents a compilation of 19 outstanding contributions from academic and industry pioneers in the field. The selected contributions present insightful discussions and innovative approaches to understand current and future bottlenecks in high-performance computing systems and traditional computing platforms, and the promise of silicon photonics to address those challenges. It is ideal for researchers and engineers working in the photonics, electrical, and computer engineering industries as well as academic researchers and graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) in computer science and engineering, electronic and electrical engineering, applied physics, photonics, and optics.

Section I High-Performance Computing Interconnect Requirements and Advances Chapter 1 Silicon Photonic Modulation for High-Performance Computing Maithem Salih and Alan Mickelson Chapter 2 Laser Modulation Schemes for Minimizing Static Power Dissipation Smruti Ranjan Sarangi Chapter 3 Scalable Low-Power High-Performance Optical Network for Rack-Scale Computers Jun Feng, Jiaxu Zhang, Shixi Chen, and Jiang Xu Chapter 4 Network-in-Package for Low-Power and High-Performance Computing Armin Tajalli Section II Device- and System-Level Challenges and Improvements Chapter 5 System-Level Management of Silicon-Photonic Networks in 2.5D Systems Aditya Narayan, Ajay Joshi, and Ayse K. Coskun Chapter 6 Thermal Reliability and Communication Performance Co-optimization for WDM-Based Optical Networks-on-Chip Mengquan Li and Weichen Liu Chapter 7 Exploring Aging Effects in Photonic Interconnects for High-Performance Manycore Architectures Ishan G. Thakkar, Sudeep Pasricha, Venkata Sai Praneeth Karempudi, and Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru Chapter 8 Improving Energy Efficiency in Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip with Approximation Techniques Febin P. Sunny, Asif Mirza, Ishan Thakkar, Sudeep Pasricha, and Mahdi Nikdast Section III Novel Design Solutions and Automation Chapter 9 Automated, Scalable Silicon Photonics Design and Verification John Ferguson, Tom Daspit, Omar El-Sewefy, and Mohamed Youssef Chapter 10 Inverse-Design for High-Performance Computing Photonics Jinhie Skarda, Geun Ho Ahn, Rahul Trivedi, Tony Wu, Subhasish Mitra, and Jelena Vuckovic Chapter 11 Efficiency-Oriented Design Automation Methods for Wavelength-Routed Optical Network-on-Chip Tsun-Ming Tseng, Mengchu Li, Zhidan Zheng, Alexandre Truppel, and Ulf Schlichtmann Section IV Novel Materials, Devices, and Photonic Integrated Circuits Chapter 12 Innovative DWDM Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Computing G. Kurczveil, Y. Yuan, J. Youn, B. Tossoun, Y. Hu, S. Mathai, P. Sun, J. Hulme, and D. Liang Chapter 13 Silicon Photonic Bragg Grating Devices Mustafa Hammood, Lukas Chrostowski, and Nicolas A. F. Jaeger Chapter 14 Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for OAM Generation and Multiplexing Yuxuan Chen, Wei Shi, and Leslie A. Rusch Chapter 15 Novel Materials for Active Silicon Photonics Chi Xiong Section V Emerging Computing Technologies and Applications Chapter 16 Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics S. Bilodeau, T. Ferreira de Lima, C. Huang, B. J. Shastri, and P. R. Prucnal Chapter 17 Logic Computing and Neural Network on Photonic Integrated Circuit Zheng Zhao, Zhoufeng Ying, Chenghao Feng, Ray T. Chen, and David Z. Pan Chapter 18 High-Performance Programmable MZI-Based Optical Processors Farhad Shokraneh, Simon Geoffroy-Gagnon, and Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur Chapter 19 High-Performance Deep Learning Acceleration with Silicon Photonics Febin P. Sunny, Asif Mirza, Mahdi Nikdast, and Sudeep Pasricha

Mahdi Nikdast is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU), Fort Collins. Sudeep Pasricha is currently a Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Colorado State University (CSU). Gabriela Nicolescu is a full professor at Polytechnique Montréal, Candra in the Department of Software and Computer Engineering. Ashkan Seyedi is a research scientist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and has been working on developing high-bandwidth, efficient optical interconnects for exascale and high-performance computing applications. Di Liang is currently a Distinguished Technologist and Research Manager at Hewlett Packard Labs in Hewlett Packard Enterprise.