@inproceedings{7bd27c9355db4b32b9cf44e25a2f884a,
title = "The Orbital Angular Momentum of Light for Ultra-High Capacity Data Centers",
abstract = "The potential of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light in data center scenarios is presented. OAMs can be exploited for short reach ultra-high bit rate fiber links and as additional multiplexing domain in transparent ultra-high capacity optical switches. Recent advances on OAM integrated photonic technology are also reported. Finally demonstration of OAM-based fiber links (aggregate throughput 17.9 Tb/s) and two layers OAM-WDM-based optical switches are presented exploiting OAM integrated components and demonstrating the achievable benefits in terms of size, weight and power consumption (SWaP) compared to different technologies.",
keywords = "data-center, optical switching, orbital angular momentum, space division multiplexing",
author = "Mirco Scaffardi and Malik, {Muhamad N.} and Jiangbo Zhu and Gernot Goeger and Ning Zhang and Charalambos Klitis and Yabin Ye and Piotr Rydlichowski and Veronica Toccafondo and Martin Lavery and Nicola Andriolli and Siyuan Yu and Marc Sorel and Antonella Bogoni",
year = "2018",
month = sep,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1109/ICTON.2018.8473631",
language = "English",
series = "International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks",
publisher = "IEEE",
booktitle = "2018 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2018",
address = "United States",
note = "20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2018 ; Conference date: 01-07-2018 Through 05-07-2018",
}