Publications associées à Synchronous Optical Network

3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

The optical domain presents potential avenues for enhancing both computing and communication due to its inherent properties of bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency. This research focuses on harnessing 3-Dimensional (3D) diffractive optics for nove ...

EPFL2024

Epidemic Learning: Boosting Decentralized Learning with Randomized Communication

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Sadegh Farhadkhani, Rafael Pereira Pires, Rishi Sharma, Marinus Abraham de Vos

We present Epidemic Learning ( EL ), a simple yet powerful decentralized learning (DL) algorithm that leverages changing communication topologies to achieve faster model convergence compared to conventional DL approaches. At each round of EL, each node sen ...

2023

Reliable Microsecond-Scale Distributed Computing

Athanasios Xygkis

The landscape of computing is changing, thanks to the advent of modern networking equipment that allows machines to exchange information in as little as one microsecond. Such advancement has enabled microsecond-scale distributed computing, where entire dis ...

EPFL2023

Image scanning microscopy with a doughnut beam: signal strength and integrated intensity

Giorgio Tortarolo

We discuss the effects of image scanning microscopy using doughnut beam illumination on the properties of signal strength and integrated intensity. Doughnut beam illumination can give better optical sectioning and background rejection than Airy disk illumi ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Programmable frequency-bin quantum states in a nano-engineered silicon device

Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi

Frequency-bin qubits get the best of time-bin and dual-rail encodings, but require external modulators and pulse shapers to build arbitrary states. Here, instead, the authors work directly on-chip by controlling the interference of biphoton amplitudes gene ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Background Rejection in Two-Photon Fluorescence Image Scanning Microscopy

Giorgio Tortarolo

We discuss the properties of signal strength and integrated intensity in two-photon excitation confocal microscopy and image scanning microscopy. The resolution, optical sectioning and background rejection are all improved over nonconfocal two-photon micro ...

MDPI2023

Using Hadamard Transform Multiplexed IR Spectroscopy Together with a Segmented Ion Trap for the Identification of Mobility-Selected Isomers

Thomas Rizzo, Ahmed Ben Faleh, Stephan Warnke, Ali H Abikhodr, Vasyl Yatsyna

The high isomeric complexity of glycans makes them particularly difficult to analyze. While ultra-high-resolution ion mobility spectrometry(IMS) can offer rapid baseline separation of many glycan isomers,their unambiguous identification remains a challengi ...

2023

Dual chirped microcomb based parallel ranging at megapixel-line rates

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Anton Lukashchuk

Photonic integrated systems can be harnessed for fast and efficient optical telecommunication and metrology technologies. Here the authors develop a dual-soliton microcomb technique for massively parallel coherent laser ranging that requires only a single ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Measurement device or biochip including an optical microcavity

Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes, Raphaël Barbey

The present invention concerns a measurement device including at least one fluidic channel for providing at least one specimen in at least one liquid to at least an optical measurement region of the measurement device; and at least one optical structure co ...

2022

Efficient Analytical Query Processing on CPU-GPU Hardware Platforms

Periklis Chrysogelos

Timely insights lead to business growth and scientific breakthroughs but require analytical engines that cope with the ever-increasing data processing needs. Analytical engines relied on rapid CPU improvements, yet the end of Dennard scaling stopped the fr ...

EPFL2022

Optical arrangement

Yves Bellouard, Sargis Hakobyan

In an optical arrangement (A) for use in an optical circuit, wherein the optical arrangement (A) comprises a substrate plate (1), wherein the substrate plate (1) is configured to receive a multitude of optical components (12.2, 12.5), the substrate plate ( ...

2021

A Simpler and Faster NIC Driver Model for Network Functions

George Candea, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli

The advent of software network functions calls for stronger correctness guarantees and higher performance at every level of the stack. Current network stacks trade simplicity for performance and flexibility, especially in their driver model. We show that p ...

2021

Design and Fabrication of Stretchable Photonic Fibers

Nicola Bartolomei

Optical fibers have reshaped the technological landscape, from optical networks and high-speed data communication to in situ imaging and non-invasive surgery methods. The revolution allowed by these fibers has been made possible by its fabrication method, ...

EPFL2021

A Distributed Luenberger Observer for Linear State Feedback Systems With Quantized and Rate-Limited Communications

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti, Ye Pu, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

This article addresses the problem of simultaneous distributed state estimation, and control of linear systems with linear state feedback, subjected to process, and measurement noise, under the constraints of quantized, and rate-limited network data transm ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Open loop control theory algorithms for high-speed 3D MEMS optical switches

Matthias Imboden

There is a world-wide push to create the next-generation all-optical transmission and switching technologies for exascale data centers. In this paper we focus on the switching fabrics. Many different types of 2D architectures are being explored including M ...

2020

Distributed and dynamic strain sensing with high spatial resolution and large measurable strain range

Luc Thévenaz, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Zhisheng Yang, Li Zhang

A distributed and dynamic strain sensing system based on frequency-scanning phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry is proposed and demonstrated. By utilizing an RF pulse scheme with a fast arbitrary waveform generator, a train of optical pulses ...

2020

Sub-nanosecond Optical Switching Using Chip-Based Soliton Microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Kun Shi, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Anton Lukashchuk

We demonstrate sub-nanosecond wavelength switching, using a chip-based soliton microcomb and a semiconductor optical amplifier-based wavelength selector. 50-Gbps PAM4 transmission is achieved with discrete components and 25-Gbps NRZ with a photonic integra ...

IEEE2020

Plug-and-play TOF-PET Module Readout Based on TDC-on-FPGA and Gigabit Optical Fiber Network

Edoardo Charbon, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner technology requires the use of a large number of PET detector modules that work in a parallel and synchronous manner. Moreover, system modularity is a desirable feature, that enables technology reutilization for d ...

IEEE2019

Add-Drop Multiplexing Architecture for Nyquist OTDM Signals Based on a Single Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Simon Julien Fabbri

We propose and compare add-drop multiplexing schemes for Nyquist OTDM signals based on 1 x2 or 2 x2 Mach-Zehnder modulator. Bright and dark sinc pulse carver simultaneously provided by the modulator fulfil drop, notch and add functions. ...

IEEE2019