CLAP

Optical Crosstalk and Loss Analysis Platform

Crosstalk noise is an intrinsic characteristic of photonic devices used by optical interconnect networks and a potential issue. We systematically developed CLAP (Crosstalk and Loss Analysis Platform), an open-source platform for analyzing crosstalk noise and loss in optical interconnect networks, such as optical network-on-chip and inter-chip optical network.

CLAP is implemented in C++ and can analyze both coherent and incoherent crosstalk noise, loss, and SNR in optical networks and optical routers based on WDM or a single wavelength. CLAP has a comprehensive library of photonic devices to construct arbitrary optical routers and optical networks, including detailed optical switch model, I/Os, waveguide crossings, waveguide bendings, waveguides, optical terminators, parallel switching elements, crossing switching elements, and filter elements. Mesh-based, folded-torus-based, and fat-tree-based optical networks are predefined and provided in the network library. CLAP can be easily extended to include more optical network architectures.

CLAP

Project Member: Xuanqi Chen, Shixi Chen, Jiang Xu, Jiaxu Zhang, Zhongyuan Tian, Jun Feng, Xiao Li

Maintained by: Xuanqi Chen (xchenbr@connect.ust.hk). If there is any inquiry or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Past Member: Luan H.K Duong, Zhifei Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang, Yaoyao Ye, Xiaowen Wu, Peng Yang

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AGREEMENT

CLAP is made openly available under the following license. Please cite the following paper if it is used.

Luan H. K. Duong, Zhehui Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Peng Yang, Zhifei Wang, Zhe Wang, Rafael Kioji Vivas Maeda, Haoran Li, Xuan Wang, Sébastien Le Beux, Yvain Thonnart, “Coherent and Incoherent Crosstalk Noise Analyses in Inter/Intra-chip Optical Interconnection Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 2475-2487, July 2016. [PDF]

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