Publications

2020

Corundum: An Open-Source 100-Gbps NIC, Alex Forencich, Alex C. Snoeren, George Porter, and George Papen, 28th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, May 2020. (PDF, PDF, presentation)

A dynamically-reconfigurable burst-mode link using a nanosecond photonic switch, Alex Forencich, Valerija Kamchevska, Nicolas Dupuis, Benjamin G. Lee, Christian Baks, George Papen, and Laurent Schares, Journal of Lightwave Technology 38(6):1330–1340, 2020.

System-Level Considerations for Optical Switching in Data Center Networks, John Alexander Forencich, 2020.

2018

System-Level Demonstration of a Dynamically Reconfigured Burst-Mode Link Using a Nanosecond Si-Photonic Switch, Alex Forencich, Valerija Kamchevska, Nicolas Dupuis, Benjamin G. Lee, Christian Baks, George Papen, Laurent Schares, Proceedings of OFC, San Diego, California, March 2018.

2017

RotorNet: A Scalable, Low-complexity, Optical Datacenter Network, William M. Mellette, Rob McGuinness, Arjun Roy, Alex Forencich, George Papen, Alex C. Snoeren, and George Porter, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Los Angeles, California, August 2017. (PDF)

Flip Chip Packaging of Digital Silicon Photonics MEMS Switch for Cloud Computing and Data Centre, How Yuan Hwang, Jun Su Lee, Tae Joon Seok, Alex Forencich, Hannah R. Grant, Dylan Knutson, Niels Quack, Sangyoon Han, Richard S. Muller, George C. Papen, Ming C. Wu, Peter O'Brien, IEEE Photonics Journal, June 2017.

2016

Bit error rate measurements of a 4 × 4 Si-Photonic switch using synchronous and asynchronous data, Hannah R. Grant, Alex Forencich, George Papen, Nicolas Dupuis, Laurent Schares, Russell A. Budd, Benjamin G. Lee, IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference (OI), 2016.

12×12 packaged digital silicon photonic MEMS switches, Tae Joon Seok, How Yuan Hwang, Jun Su Lee, Alex Forencich, Hannah R. Grant, Dylan Knutson, Niels Quack, Sangyoon Han, Richard S. Muller, Lee Carroll, George C. Papen, Peter O'Brien, Ming C. Wu, 2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2016.

2014

Circuit Switching Under the Radar with REACToR, He Liu, Feng Lu, Alex Forencich, Rishi Kapoor, Malveeka Tewari, Geoffrey M. Voelker, George Papen, Alex C. Snoeren, and George Porter, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Seattle, WA, April 2014. (PDF, PDF)

Wideband silicon-photonic thermo-optic switch in a wavelength-division multiplexed ring network, Ryan Aguinaldo, Alex Forencich, Christopher DeRose, Anthony Lentine, Douglas C. Trotter, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Porter, George Papen, Shayan Mookherjea, Optics Express 22(7):8205-8218, 2014.

Characterization of a silicon-photonic wideband switch in UCSD's MORDIA ring network, Ryan Aguinaldo, Alex Forencich, Christopher DeRose, Anthony Lentine, Douglas C. Trotter, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Porter, George Papen, Shayan Mookherjea, IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference paper TuD4, 2014.

Energy-efficient, digitally-driven fat pipe silicon photonic circuit switch in the UCSD MORDIA data-center network, Ryan Aguinaldo, Alex Forencich, Christopher DeRose, Anthony Lentine, Douglas C. Trotter, Andrew Starbuck, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Porter, George Papen, Shayan Mookherjea, CLEO 2014 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics paper STu1J.2, 2014.

2013

A Multiport Microsecond Optical Circuit Switch for Data Center Networking, Nathan Farrington, Alex Forencich, George Porter, Pang-Chen Sun, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George C. Papen, and Amin Vahdat, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 25(16):1589-1592, 2013.

Integrating Microsecond Circuit Switching into the Data Center, George Porter, Richard Strong, Nathan Farrington, Alex Forencich, Pang-Chen Sun, Tajana Rosing, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Hong Kong, China, August 2013. (PDF, PDF)

Optical/Electrical Hybrid Switching for Datacenter Communications, Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Alex Forencich, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Amin Vahdat, and George Papen, Proceedings of the 18th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2013) / Photonics in Switching 2013 (PS2013), Kyoto, Japan, July 2013.

A 10 μs Hybrid Optical-Circuit/Electrical-Packet Network for Datacenters, Nathan Farrington, Alex Forencich, Pang-Chen Sun, Shaya Fainman, Joe Ford, Amin Vahdat, George Porter, and George Papen, Proceedings of OFC/NFOEC, Anaheim, California, March 2013. (PDF, PDF)

2012

A Demonstration of Ultra-Low-Latency Datacenter Optical Circuit Switching, Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Pang-chen Sun, Alex Forencich, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 2012. (PDF, PDF) (Project Website)