Silicon-Photonics Microring Links for Datacenters—Challenges and Opportunities
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The rapid growth of warehouse-scale datacenters demands high-throughput optical interconnects that can span short-to-medium reach distances (<; few kilometers). Microring-based silicon-photonics links with single-mode fibers are highly promising for these applications. This paper presents an analysis of microring-based links from the holistic perspective of optical devices, CMOS circuits, and system-level link budget and energy-efficiency simulations. Design considerations and tradeoffs for the receiver, transmitter, and the overall link are presented, and comparisons are made to the mainstream multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser-based links with multi-mode fibers. Finally, research opportunities are highlighted for further improving the energy efficiency of single channel and wavelength division multiplexing-based silicon-photonics links.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it