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- William M. Mellette, Rob McGuinness, +4 authors George Porter
- SIGCOMM
- 2017
The ever-increasing bandwidth requirements of modern datacenters have led researchers to propose networks based upon optical circuit switches, but these proposals face significant deployment… (More)
- William M. Mellette, Joseph E. Ford
- Journal of Lightwave Technology
- 2015
Transparent optical circuit switching can improve the aggregate bandwidth, scalability, and cost of data center networks provided, it can meet the performance requirements on switching speed, port… (More)
- William M. Mellette, Glenn Schuster, George Porter, G. C. Papen, Joseph E. Ford
- Journal of Lightwave Technology
- 2017
Optical circuit switching may be instrumental in meeting the cost, energy, and aggregate bandwidth requirements of future data center networks. However, conventional MEMS beam-steering cross-connects… (More)
- William M. Mellette, Joseph E. Ford
- 2015 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and…
- 2015
We present a first-principles analysis of the scaling of switch response speed as a function of port count, crosstalk, and insertion loss, based on physical optics and kinematics of canonical MEMS… (More)
- William M. Mellette, Glenn Schuster, George Porter, Joseph E. Ford
- 2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and…
- 2016
We present design and preliminary characterization of a scalable MEMS-based “selector switch” for high performance computing networks. The 170 μs, 61-port prototype uses relay image steering to route… (More)
- Salman Karbasi, Ashkan Arianpour, Nojan Motamedi, William M. Mellette, Joseph E. Ford
- Applied optics
- 2015
Imaging fiber bundles can map the curved image surface formed by some high-performance lenses onto flat focal plane detectors. The relative alignment between the focal plane array pixels and the… (More)
- William M. Mellette, Glenn Schuster, Joseph E. Ford
- Optics express
- 2014
We present a versatile illumination system where white light emitting diodes are coupled through a planar waveguide to periodically patterned extraction features at the focal plane of a two… (More)
- Glenn Schuster, William M. Mellette, Joseph E. Ford
- Applied optics
- 2017
We describe a catadioptric monocentric imager using an elastic central element focused by deformation of a fold mirror. We show the design of 6 mm and 12 mm focal length F/2.8 achromats and compare… (More)
- William M. Mellette, Alex C. Snoeren, George Porter
- HotNets
- 2016
The bandwidth and latency requirements of next-generation datacenter networks stress the limits of CMOS manufacturing. A key trend in their design will be a move from single-channel links and… (More)
Optical switching may be instrumental in meeting the cost, power, and bandwidth requirements of future data center networks. However, optical switching faces many challenges to practical adoption. We… (More)