Bidirectional transmissions in a ring-based packaged optical NoC with 12 add-drop microrings

This paper demonstrates different bidirectional transmissions in a packaged ring-based optical network-on-chip (NoC) with 12 add-drop microrings. Shared-source and shared-destination microring configurations have been tested for paths of different lengths, showing a maximum penalty of 1 dB and 2 dB at 10
^-9
BER, respectively.