CMOS-based technology will allow low-cost integration of high-speed optical interfaces in silicon Addressing the problem of high-speed interchip interfaces, a technology developed by fabless ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue researchers have helped design a compact switch that enables light to be more reliably confined to small computer chip components for faster information processing. It’s ...

The lithium niobate thin-film modulator was designed to achieve a modulation frequency of 350 kHz within the 0–2π phase range, further realizing high speed control of optical field coherence.

Data centers are fast approaching an inflection point, where the performance gains from electrical interconnects grind to a halt, and the power consumption required to pump electrons through copper ...

A team from Laval University in Quebec has sent 1Tbit/s down an optical fibre used micro ring resonators on silicon to modulate the data. “Unlike traditional systems that exploit only light intensity, ...

Achieving a net data rate of 400Gb/s per lane, imec’s GeSi EAM heralds a new generation of compact, high-bandwidth, low-latency, and energy-efficient modulators – tailored for short-reach, scale-up ...

An electro-optic modulator plays the key role in fiber optic networks. Just as a transistor is a switch for electronic signals, an electro-optic modulator is a switch for optical signals. Optical ...

Many state-of-the-art technologies work at incredibly low temperatures. Superconducting microprocessors and quantum computers promise to revolutionize computation, but scientists need to keep them ...

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