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This 16-minute talk by Frank Smyth, Founder and CTO of Pilot Photonics, explores how AI/ML workloads are pushing data centers to their limits with data transfer (I/O) becoming a major bottleneck. Discover how traditional optical interconnects that rely on limited wavelengths face scaling challenges due to dispersion, power constraints, and wavelength stability issues. Learn about innovative laser architectures including laser arrays, comb lasers, and hybrid solutions that combine the best features of both approaches. Explore future avenues for continued scaling and additional benefits that can be unlocked using comb lasers rather than laser arrays to meet the growing demands of next-generation networks in AI and cloud computing environments.
