Energy Consumption Comparison of IM/DD, Coherent, and Kerr-comb-WDM Architectures for Intra-Datacenter Applications

Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Shi, Dayu; Yuan, Puzhen; Zhu, Haojie; Shieh, William

Abstract:
This paper models and compares the energy consumption in intra-datacenter scenarios for SDM-based IM/DD, OFDM-based coherent, and Kerr-comb-based WDM transceivers to explore the most energy-efficient architecture for accommodating increasing datarates.