About

The Lightwave Research Laboratory, led by Professor Keren Bergman, work at the intersection of photonics and computing drives to exploit optical data movement for creating energy efficient extreme performance data centers. The recent explosive growth in data analytics and need for intense performance is pushing current datacenter interconnects to their limits. Bergman’s research on nanoscale photonic networks is pioneering new optical computing architectures that will enable the ultra-high speed communication of massive volumes of information at nearly the speed of light.

The Lightwave Research Laboratory has multiple research programs on optical interconnection networks for advanced computing systems, data centers, optical packet-switched routers, and nanophotonic networks-on-chip for chip multiprocessors. The Lightwave Research Laboratory is developing a new class of nanoscale photonic interconnect technologies that seamlessly move data from on-chip networks, across memory and large computing systems with extreme energy efficiency. These future platforms, driven by nanophotonic-enabled interconnectivity, and the enormous bandwidth advantage of dense wavelength division multiplexing, will fundamentally transform the computation-communications architecture, to create systems able to meet explosive information demands at all scales.