基于集成光波导的超快光子微积分运算研究进展

为了克服电子计算的速率瓶颈,采用全光计算可以有效释放光子的巨大带宽资源,同时全光计算在全光通信网络中有着举足轻重的作用,集成光波导器件以其尺寸小、质量轻、功率代价小等优势已经成为最受关注的光子计算芯片资源之一。光子微积分运算是指在光域中直接对输入信号进行微积分数学运算。本文回顾了几种 常见的硅基光波导器件用于光子微积分运算的实现方案,包括高阶光子微分运算、分数阶微分运算、高阶常系数微分方程求解、可重构的一阶常系数微分方程求解,分别采用的硅基集成光子器件包括级联马赫增德尔干涉仪、掺杂型马赫增德尔干涉仪、级联微环谐振器和掺杂型微环谐振器。本文指出利用集成光波导器件来实现光子微积分器势必会成为光子微积分运算的重要发展方向。     

Modern architecture for photonic networks-on-chip

Development in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) provides a promising solution for on-chip optical computation and communication. PICs provides the best alternative to traditional networks-on-chip (NoC) circuits which face serious challenges such as bandwidth, latency and power consumption. Integrated optics have substantiated the ability to accomplish low-power communication and low-power data processing at ultra-high speeds. In this work, we propose a new architecture for NoC, which might improve overall on-chip network performance by reducing its power consumption, providing large channel capacity for communication, decreasing latency among nodes and reducing hop count. Some of the key features of the proposed architecture are to reduce the waveguide network for communication among nodes, and this architecture can be used as a brick to construct other architectures. In this architecture, we use micro-ring resonator (MRR) and it is used to provide a high bandwidth connection among nodes with a lesser number of waveguide networks. Furthermore, results show that this architecture of PICs provides better performance in terms of low communication latency, low power consumption, high bandwidth. It also provides acceptable FSR value, FWHR value, finesse value and Q-factor of micro-ring resonators used for the design of MRR in this architecture.

     

Minimizing power loss in optical networks-on-chip through application-specific mapping

The next generation of Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip will require communication facilities that cannot be provided by traditional electronic communication infrastructures. Silicon photonics appears today a promising solution to handle future communication needs thanks to ultra-high bandwidth and extremely low-power consumption. However, designing an optical on-chip network requires addressing several challenges that have no equivalent in the electronic domain. In particular, photonic networks-on-chip suffer from considerable power loss, which affects the network scalability and impacts the performance by constraining the total number of wavelengths and hence the available bandwidth. In this paper, we propose an algorithm which automatically maps the IP cores onto a generic mesh-based photonic NoC architecture such that the worst-case power loss is minimized. As the main contribution, we first formulate the problem of power loss aware mapping and then we propose a genetic algorithm to solve it. Experimental results show that the power loss can be significantly reduced enabling much higher scalability of the on-chip photonic interconnect.     

Time-division-multiplexed arbitration in silicon nanophotonic networks-on-chip for high-performance chip multiprocessors

As the computational performance of microprocessors continues to grow through the integration of an increasing number of processing cores on a single die, the interconnection network has become the central subsystem for providing the communications infrastructure among the on-chip cores as well as to off-chip memory. Silicon nanophotonics as an interconnect technology offers several promising benefits for future networks-on-chip, including low end-to-end transmission energy and high bandwidth density of waveguides using wavelength division multiplexing. In this work, we propose the use of time-division-multiplexed distributed arbitration in a photonic mesh network composed of silicon micro-ring resonator based photonic switches, which provides round-robin fairness to setting up photonic circuit paths. Our design sustains over 10× more bandwidth and uses less power than the compared network designs. We also observe a 2× improvement in performance for memory-centric application traces using the MORE modeling system.     

Loss-aware routing algorithm for photonic networks on chip

Photonic network on chip was introduced as an efficient communication platform to overcome the existing challenges in traditional networks on chip. Optical networks provide high bandwidth and low power dissipation infrastructure. Insertion loss is one of the important parameters in photonic networks on chip. In this study, we propose a solution in routing algorithm level in order to reduce insertion loss in photonic network on chip, by passing packets through paths with lower number of optical elements. Simulation results reveal that a novel approach in the routing level decreases insertion loss as much as possible, energy consumption and optical power budget. Our proposed routing has 29.05% less insertion loss under all2all traffic pattern for blocking torus topology, and it has about 12.37% less insertion loss for TorusNX topology in comparison with primary dimension-ordered routing. Proposed routing algorithm increases both the network bandwidth and scalability.     

Optical multiplexing techniques for photonic Clos networks in High Performance Computing Architectures

Future high-performance computing (HPC) architectures will consist of whole parallel computing systems integrated on chip-level and boards mounted with lots of computing chips and chip-external main memory. Photonic networks on board and photonic network on chips (NoCs) offer the potential to fulfill the high bandwidth requirements in such systems. In addition they need less power, offer better EMC capabilities and can reduce cabling effort compared to electronic networks. Due to their non-blocking property Clos networks are frequently used in HPC architectures. Therefore we investigated how a photonic on-board Clos network can be realized using Coarse Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing (CWDM) techniques with state-of-the art components based on fiber technology. In addition we present a new photonic Clos NoC architecture based on Wavelength Interchanging (WI) elements, optical waveguide structures, mode-locked laser sources, nanophotonic microrings and passive optical deflection elements to reduce the number of switches. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks for using different optical technologies for such an architecture.     

光子晶体的研究与应用

光子晶体是一种具有光子能带及能隙的新型材料。其特有的性质,使光子晶体具有广阔的应用前景。本文基于固体物理学的基本原理,对光子晶体的理论基础进行了简单介绍,根据其特有结构,对光子晶体的特性做了一定分析,并结合现实需要,综述了光子晶体在光学等方面的应用。     

光子晶体的研究与应用

光子晶体是一种具有光子能带及能隙的新型材料。其特有的性质,使光子晶体具有广阔的应用前景。本文基于固体物理学的基本原理,对光子晶体的理论基础进行了简单介绍,根据其特有结构,对光子晶体的特性做了一定分析,并结合现实需要,综述了光子晶体在光学等方面的应用。     

Tabular-expression-based method for constructing metamorphic relations

Metamorphic testing (MT) is proposed to overcome the oracle problem in software testing, and metamorphic relations (MRs) are the core of MT. There is a lack of guidelines for constructing effective MRs, and it is difficult to reuse MRs mainly because most MRs are closely related to the domain knowledge. In this article, we propose a method for constructing MRs from specifications in tabular expression format. Our method constructs MRs according to the characteristics of tabular expressions, especially the relationships between the header grids and the main grid, namely, our method is domain-independent and the construction process is simplified. In addition, the derived MRs can be applied to specifications with the same tabular expression structure. For specifications with different tabular expression structures, MRs can still be used after slight adjustments. To evaluate the performance of our method in practice, we apply the method to five applications. The experimental results demonstrate that our method is effective for a program with the oracle problem, and that it is applicable to tabular expressions in various formats. Compared with representative testing methods, our method identifies errors that are not detected by the compared methods. Hence, our method and existing methods can complement each other. The MR proposed in this article outperforms MRs constructed based on program properties.     

Load-balanced mesh router migration for wireless mesh networks

Load-balancing among domains in a wireless mesh network (WMN) is normally achieved by changing the Internet attachment of mesh routers (MRs) that carry the traffic from mobile stations (MSs). The greediness of load-balancing algorithms may force MRs to frequently change their Internet attachments, and thus degrade network performance due to inter-domain mobility of the associated MSs. In this paper, we discuss the negative impact on the performance of MSs’ mobility, due to inter-domain reassignment of MR. A MR migration scheme is proposed to achieve a tradeoff between load-balancing and inter-domain reassignment of MR. The proposed load-balancing scheme for WMNs includes: an initialization procedure to divide a WMN into domains, and a load adjustment procedure to rebalance the traffic load among the neighboring domains when required. We also provide a framework for handling inter-domain mobility in support of multi-hop communication using the Multi-hop cellular IP. Our simulation results show that the proposed protocol effectively controls MR’s change in connectivity as well as MS’s mobility.     

Optimal port allocation scheme for deflection-routed networks-on-chip

The Journal of Supercomputing - Deflection routing is considered a promising approach for improving the energy efficiency of networks-on-chip (NoCs) because of its hardware simplicity and minimal...     

Optimization and comparison of photonic crystal resonators for silicon microcantilever sensors

Microcantilever sensors have been known as a fundamental design used in force sensors, strain sensors and biochemical sensors. The fast-growing applications in nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) lead to strong demands in new sensing mechanism in order to downsize the sensing elements to nanometer scale. Photonic crystal (PC) based resonators have been investigated as promising solutions because the bandgap structure and resonator characteristics are extremely sensitive to the deformation and position shift of holes in PC resonators. In addition to the well-known nano-cavity resonator (NCR), we proposed hexagonal nano-ring resonators (NRR) of two different layout configurations. When a microcantilever under different force loads, both of the resonant wavelength and the resonant wavelength shift can be measured as a linear function of force load. The linear relationship between wavelength shifts and strain is observed as well. The minimum detectable force and detectable strain for NRR configuration 1 is derived as small as 0.0757 μN and 0.0023%. The outstanding sensing capability renders PC resonators as a promising nanomechanical sensing element to be integrated in various transducers for NEMS applications.     

An empirical study of fine-grained software modifications

Software is typically improved and modified in small increments (we refer to each of these increments as a modification record—MR). MRs are usually stored in a configuration management or version control system and can be retrieved for analysis. In this study we retrieved the MRs from several mature open software projects. We then concentrated our analysis on those MRs that fix defects and provided heuristics to automatically classify them. We used the information in the MRs to visualize what files are changed at the same time, and who are the people who tend to modify certain files. We argue that these visualizations can be used to understand the development stage of in which a project is at a given time (new features are added, or defects are being fixed), the level of modularization of a project, and how developers might interact between each other and the source code of a system.     

Fabrication of the plastic component for photonic crystal using micro injection molding

In this decade, many techniques have been introduced to fabricate photonic crystal in optical applications. Most of the processes used to fabricate the photonic crystal are time consuming and not cost effective. This study demonstrates an efficient method to fabricate photonic crystals. A polymer-based photonic crystal slab has been developed by embedding mixture with a high dielectric constant. Photonic crystals have patterned structures in which periodicity of dielectric properties can manipulate electromagnetic waves. The operation wavelength is about half of the characteristic dimension. Technique of injection molding is applied to make polymer parts with the photonic crystal pattern. Then mixture of barium titanate powder and epoxy is embedded on the patterned structure of the polymer part. The contrast of dielectric coefficients between mixture and polymer can constitute a structure with some photonic band gap. By means of polymer processing, mass production of photonic crystal devices like optical switch, optical waveguide, optical filter and so forth can be realized in a cost effective way.     

Development of photonic crystal composites for display applications

Abstract— With an ever‐increasing demand for bigger, brighter, and more‐efficient displays, the research into new display technologies is consistently vibrant and groundbreaking. In this paper, a new type of display material based on the electrical actuation of photonic crystals is described. This material, called Photonic Ink, is capable of reflecting bright and narrow bands of color tunable throughout the entire visible spectrum as well as into the UV or NIR. P‐Ink devices are switched at low voltage and display electrical bistability, leading to very low power consumption. The characteristics of the P‐Ink material make it a viable option for color‐based reflective‐display devices.     

光子晶体的研究及其在传感器中的应用

光子晶体是指具有光子带隙(PBG)特性的人造周期性电介质结构,有时也称为PBG光子晶体结构。按照光子晶体的光子禁带在空间中所存在的维数,可以将其分为一维光子晶体、二维光子晶体和三维光子晶体。光子晶体传感器应用包括应变传感器、温度传感器、化学传感器、光子晶体光纤传感器、长周期光纤光栅(LPFG)生物传感器、LPFG化学传感器等。本文从光子晶体传感器的概述、研究现状和应用几方面对光子晶体传感器的应用进展进行了综述,希望对光子晶体传感器有一个比较全面的了解。     

无线传感器网络中基于最小速率的拥塞控制算法

针对无线传感器网络的拥塞问题,设计了一种基于最小速率的拥塞控制算法。利用分布式动态系统的理论对拥塞问题进行了建模,并证明了该算法能够保证所有节点的发送速率收敛到可用的最小带宽。利用李亚普诺函数证明了算法在变拓扑网络结构下的有效性。NS仿真结果表明,这种最小速率算法能够很好地抑制无线传感器网络中的拥塞现象,保证了较高的吞吐量和较低的网络延时,提高了整个网络的服务质量。     

Design of certification authority using secret redistribution and multicast routing in wireless mesh networks

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) should provide authentication and key management without a trusted third party because of their self-organizing and self-configuring characteristics. Several solutions to this problem have been proposed in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). But they are not optimal for WMNs because WMNs are with stationary mesh routers (MRs) that do not suffer from the limited power problem. In this paper, we design an architecture of mesh certification authority (MeCA) for WMNs. In MeCA, the secret key and functions of certification authority (CA) are distributed over several MRs. For secret sharing and redistribution, we develop the fast verifiable share redistribution (FVSR) scheme, which works for threshold cryptography and minimizes the possibility of secret disclosure when some shareholders are compromised by adversaries. MeCA adopts the multicasting based on Ruiz tree, which is optimal in reducing the operation overhead. It can update, revoke, and verify certificates of WMN nodes in a secure and efficient manner. Simulation results show that MeCA does not disclose its secret key even under severe attacks while incurring low overhead compared to other existing schemes in MANETs.     

Fabrication of two dimensional high aspect ratio polymer photonic crystal laser

Photonic crystals have attracted much attention from researchers because of the control over the propagation and emission of light and particular optical properties. In this paper, we reported on the design, fabrication and test of a two-dimensional polymer photonic crystal laser. First of all, a two-dimensional polymer photonic crystal laser with a triangle-lattice structure was described. Rhodamine 6G doped in PMMA was chosen as the gain material. Then, plane wave method based on the Maxwell equations was utilized to calculate the distribution of the photonic band gap. We calculated the band structure of a triangle lattice photonic crystal with a low refractive index. High resolution electron beam lithography combined with electroplating was used to fabricate the silicon nitride mask. A high aspect ratio two-dimensional photonic crystal laser was fabricated by X-ray lithography in one-step process to overcome the limitation of the thickness by the conventional methods to realize a real two-dimensional laser. Meanwhile, processes of sample preparations and fabrication were optimized in order to avoid the oxidation of the gain material and reduce the diffraction effect on the structures.     

CSRR based folded monopole tri‐band antenna array and its system level evaluation

In this article, a folded monopole antenna loaded with complementary split ring resonators (CSRRs) is proposed for tri‐band applications. The two bands of the antenna are generated by the folding of the monopole (first band is caused due to fundamental mode and another due to higher order mode) and CSRRs have been responsible for the third band. By using four such antennas in form of an array, the gain and bandwidth have been improved. The prototype of the antenna array is developed on FR4 substrate and simulated results are experimentally validated. A simplified equivalent circuit model of the antenna has been developed and analyzed to quantify the power loss due to input impedance mismatch at each resonance frequency. By using the EM model of the proposed antenna in the Keysight ADS verification test bench its suitability to operate in the system environment has been confirmed.