posted by Ansheng Liu on December 18, 2008
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) that is capable of transmitting data at an aggregate data rate of 200 Gbps. Such an achievement represents a technical milestone towards the goal of realizing a single optical chip with terabits per second data transmission capability for future tera-scale computing.
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posted by Cheryl Miller on December 12, 2008
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.
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posted by Cheryl Miller on December 10, 2008
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 receive optical information among computers for faster, smaller, more energy efficient and much cheaper communications components than ever before.
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posted by Mike Morse on December 07, 2008
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 (APDs) though, it is important to provide some context for the work.
Several companies are active in the field of silicon photonics because they believe that silicon has an advantage in making the very low cost optical parts needed for large markets. These potentially include a very diverse set of applications including supercomputing, data center communications, consumer electronics, automotive sensors, and medical diagnostics just to name a few. Up until now, only a few silicon photonics products have been commercialized as companies have been working through the latter stages of the development and qualification processes. This looks set to change over the next few (≤3) years as several devices exit this pipeline and go on the market.
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posted by Dawn Nafus on December 03, 2008
I had the pleasure of recently attending the joint OECD-World Bank Conference on Innovation and Sustainable Growth. Innovation policy appears to be having a bit of a renaissance. As OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría put it, with so much innovation happening as a matter of adoption, or services, innovation policy has moved beyond raising a country’s patenting rate or dollars spent in research labs. Indeed OECD economist Sam Paltridge had pointed out that while the twentieth century tech transfer was marked by leading-edge industrial engineers visiting factories in developing economies, today firms like Intel and Nokia are now just as likely to send anthropologists to talk to end users.
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