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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
May. 19, 2010
Nathan Lorenzo Binkert, Redwood City, CA (US);
Moray Mclaren, Bristol, GB;
Michael Renne Ty Tan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alan Lynn Davis, Coalville, UT (US);
Nathan Lorenzo Binkert, Redwood City, CA (US);
Moray McLaren, Bristol, GB;
Michael Renne Ty Tan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alan Lynn Davis, Coalville, UT (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Optical interconnect fabrics and optical switches are disclosed. In one aspect, an optical interconnect fabric comprises one or more bundles of optical broadcast buses. Each optical broadcast bus is optically coupled at one end to a node and configured to transmit optical signals generated by the node. The optical fabric also includes a number of optical tap arrays distributed along each bundle of optical broadcast buses. Each optical tap array is configured to divert a portion of the optical power associated with the optical signals carried by a bundle of optical broadcast buses to one of the nodes.