Scientists at the University of Twente's MESA+ research institute have developed a new manufacturing method to create three-dimensional nanostructures. This revolutionary method enables large-scale production of photonic ...
Nanophysics
Nov 19, 2015
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Advances in microprocessors have transferred the computation bottleneck away from CPUs to better communications between components. That trend is driving the advance into optical interconnection of components, now moving ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Sep 9, 2015
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By encoding information in photons via their spin, "photonic" computers could be orders of magnitude faster and efficient than their current-day counterparts. Likewise, encoding information in the spin of electrons, rather ...
General Physics
Jul 23, 2015
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Silicon photonics holds great promise for low-cost, large-scale integration of photonic components. The demand for increasing density of these components has led to a multitude of technological challenges in their manufacture ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 23, 2015
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Researchers at Tohoku University and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan, have developed a novel ultra-compact heterogeneous wavelength tunable laser diode. The heterogeneous ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 2, 2015
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University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers and mobile devices capable of speeds millions of times faster than current machines.
Optics & Photonics
May 18, 2015
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IBM today announced a significant milestone in the development of silicon photonics technology, which enables silicon chips to use pulses of light instead of electrical signals over wires to move data at rapid speeds and ...
Optics & Photonics
May 13, 2015
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The computing and telecommunications industries have ambitious plans for the future: Systems that will store information in the cloud, analyze enormous amounts of data, and think more like a brain than a standard computer. ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 13, 2015
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Today's explosion of video and Internet data is driving unprecedented traffic demand within datacenters. With data transfer rates exceeding 100 gigabits-per-second (Gb/s), communication between servers requires optical switches ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 11, 2015
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Today, at the 2015 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), nanoelectronics research center imec, in collaboration with Tyndall National Institute, the University of Leuven (KULeuven) and the Ghent University, ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Feb 26, 2015
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