I’m writing today to congratulate Intel Fellow Dr. Mario Paniccia for receiving EE Times’ “ACE” award for Innovator of the Year last night in San Jose. These awards celebrate technologists who demonstrate leadership and innovation to change the electronics industry … Read more
Today the University of Washington launched an exciting program that we hope will help trigger a new technology revolution around integrated silicon photonics chips. This program, which we call OpSIS (Optoelectronics Systems Integration in Silicon), will provide a silicon photonics wafer service … Read more
Fifty years ago, Ted Maiman built the first laser out of a ruby crystal rod, never expecting that this invention would revolutionize industries from medicine to communications. Likewise, it’s hard to imagine that Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby could have … Read more
Wow, 50 years ago one amazing piece of technology was born – the laser. Happy Birthday! This has to be one of the most amazing technology stories. Invented in a lab, and looking for a use. No early focus groups. … Read more
In my blog of July 2007, I described the world first silicon modulator that encodes optical data at 40 Gbps or 40 billion bits per second. Today, I would like to share with you a silicon photonic integrated chip (PIC) … Read more
The recent silicon photonics avalanche photodetector announcement is an excellent example of how industry and academia, working together, can achieve breakthrough results. Combining the expertise of industry engineers and researchers with the knowledge of universities allows for greater advances.
What would you do if the Internet were a million times faster? Hard to imagine the possibility isn’t it? Well that’s one potential for a future technology – “Silicon Photonics” – a technology that uses everyday silicon to send and … Read more
On December 7, Intel published world record results for a silicon-based photodetector in Nature Photonics, and we wanted to explain the results in a little more detail in this blog. Before launching into the “in’s and out’s” of avalanche photodetectors … Read more
Congratulations to Intel Fellow Dr. Mario Paniccia, director of Intel’s Photonics Technology Lab, who on October 16th at an award ceremony in Chicago, was named R&D Magazine’s “2008 Scientist of the Year.” The Scientist of the Year Award has been … Read more
The continued growth of data rates in servers, routers and high-bandwidth computing systems has led to an increased interest in optical backplanes for these applications. Data rates in the backplane are increasing to several Gbps/channel and higher. The trend to … Read more
