The rise of computers in past decades was made possible largely thanks to the invention of the integrated circuit, a device that combines all necessary electronic components onto a single chip. In a similar vein, the success ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 17, 2011
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Silicon photonics holds great promise for low-cost, large-scale integration of photonic components. Â 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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Most people are familiar with the concept of RADAR. Radio frequency (RF) waves travel through the atmosphere, reflect off of a target, and return to the RADAR system to be processed. The amount of time it takes to return ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 16, 2013
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University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a nanocomponent that emits light particles carrying quantum information. Less than one-tenth the width of a human hair, the miniscule component makes it possible to scale ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 24, 2019
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Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crisscross the globe and package everything from financial data to cat videos into light. But when the signal arrives at your local data center, it runs into a silicon bottleneck. ...
Nanophysics
Mar 27, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With much of the mobile world yet to migrate to 3G mobile communications, let alone 4G, European researchers are already working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s.
Telecom
Mar 5, 2009
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DARPA's Electronic-Photonic Heterogeneous Integration (E-PHI) program has successfully integrated billions of light-emitting dots on silicon to create an efficient silicon-based laser. The breakthrough, achieved by researchers ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 11, 2014
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The idea to perform data processing with light, without relying on any electronic components, has been around for quite some time. In fact, necessary components such as optical transistors are available. However, up to now ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 19, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Significant proof of the critical importance of long term basic research funding has been demonstrated with the first convincing operation of a room temperature, continuous wave nanolaser powered by electricity.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jul 16, 2013
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For the first time, researchers of the University of Twente succeeded in connecting two parts of an electronics chip using an on-chip optical link. A light connection could be a safe way of connecting a high-power component ...
Hardware
Jan 18, 2019
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