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09/04/202009/04/2020

Light-emitting silicon, breakthrough after 50 years of work

Emitting light from silicon has been the ‘Holy Grail’ in the microelectronics industry for decades. Solving this puzzle would revolutionize computing, as chips will become faster than ever. Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology now succeeded: they have developed an alloy with silicon that can emit light. The results have been published in the journal Nature. The team will now start creating a silicon laser to be integrated into current chips.

07/07/201507/07/2015

Open Collaboration is key to accelerate the Photonics Growth Curve

“We’ve analysed the success of microelectronics. Now we’re putting those lessons learned to work for integrated photonics” says Professor Meint Smit, Eindhoven University of Technology. Continue reading “Open Collaboration is key to accelerate the Photonics Growth Curve”

10/06/201516/06/2015

Comparison between InP and Silicon Photonics

The most important qualities when comparing InP and Silicon Photonics PICs are functionality, performance and cost. Functionality and performance: The fundamental and key advantage brought by InP is the ability to monolithically integrate compact and efficient optical amplifiers. Continue reading “Comparison between InP and Silicon Photonics”

15/05/2015

IBM Advances Silicon Photonics, Quantum Computing

Engineers at IBM have developed a fully integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip, which the company says will soon enable manufacturing of 100 Gb/s optical transceivers. The advance promises to offer a more economical way to move the huge amounts of data required for cloud computing and big data applications. Continue reading “IBM Advances Silicon Photonics, Quantum Computing”