The rapid growth in the amount of data being transferred within data centres, combined with the slowdown in Moore\u2019s Law, creates challenges for the future scalability of electronically switched data-centre networks. Optical switches could offer a future-proof alternative, and photonic integration platforms have been demonstrated with nanosecond-scale optical switching times. End-to-end switching time is, however, currently limited by the clock and data recovery time, which typically takes microseconds, removing the benefits of nanosecond optical switching. Here we show that a clock phase caching technique can provide clock and data recovery times of under 625\u2009ps (16 symbols at 25.6\u2009Gb\u2009s\u22121). Our approach uses the measurement and storage of clock phase values in a synchronized network to simplify clock and data recovery versus conventional asynchronous approaches. We demonstrate the capabilities of our technique using a real-time prototype with commercial transceivers and validate its resilience against temperature variation and clock jitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The rapid growth in the amount of data being transferred within data centres, combined with the slowdown in Moore\u2019s Law, creates challenges for the future scalability of electronically switched data-centre networks. Optical switches could offer a future-proof alternative, and photonic integration platforms have been demonstrated with nanosecond-scale optical switching times. 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