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Optical Circuit Switch Technology Built on Low-Loss Silicon Photonics Platform

35 points • by gmays • yesterday at 1:34 AM • 1 comment • view on HN

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crote • today at 10:39 AM

Google's OCS Apollo[0] achieved roughly the same losses and switching latency using MEMS, but with 136x136 connectivity. They expect it to scale beyond 1000x1000.

What's the unique selling point for this new solution? Cost? Something quantum-related MEMS can't do?

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10041