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Entries in silicon photonics (58)

Thursday
Jan162014

Intel on silicon photonics and its role in the data centre

In the next couple of years, you will see a massive adoption of silicon photonics into the data centers and into high-performance computing

Mario Paniccia, Intel 

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Wednesday
Dec112013

First silicon photonics devices from STMicro in 2014 

STMicroelectronics expects to have first silicon photonics products by mid-2014. The chip company announced the licensing of silicon photonics technology from Luxtera in March 2012. Since then STMicro has been developing its 300mm (12-inch) CMOS wafer manufacturing line for silicon photonics at its fab at Crolles, France.

Flavio Benetti, STMicroelectronics

"We think we are the only ones doing the processing in a 12-inch line," says Flavio Benetti, general manager of  mixed processes division at STMicroelectronics.

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Sunday
Sep292013

Ranovus developing DWDM links for the data centre

Ranovus has raised US $11 million in funding to develop Terabit capacity links for the data centre. The Ottawa-based start-up plans to use dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) technology to create huge data pipes that reduce significantly the power consumption, and cost, per bit.

 

Source: Gazettabyte

 

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Sunday
Sep222013

Is silicon photonics an industry game-changer? 

Briefing: Silicon Photonics

Part 3: Merits, challenges and applications   


Shown in blue are the optical waveguides with their tight bend radius while the copper wires carrying high-speed electrical signals is shown in orange. Source: IBM

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Tuesday
Sep172013

Q&A with Jerry Rawls - Part 2 

The concluding part of the interview with Finisar's executive chairman and company co-founder, Jerry Rawls, to mark the company's 25th anniversary.

Second and final part

 

Guys that are in the silicon photonics industry have a religion. It does not make any difference what the real economics are, what the real performance is, they talk with a religious fervour about what might be possible with silicon 

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Thursday
Sep122013

Terabit interconnect to take hold in the data centre

Intel and Corning have further detailed their 1.6 Terabit interface technology for the data centre.

The collaboration combines Intel's silicon photonics technology operating at 25 Gigabit-per-fibre with Corning's ClearCurve LX multimode fibre and latest MXC connector.


Silicon photonics wafer and the ClearCurve fibres. Source: Intel

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Thursday
Aug152013

Bell Labs on silicon photonics

Briefing: Silicon Photonics

Part 2: A system vendor's perspective

  • Silicon photonics as a technology has its challenges
  • Its biggest impact could be to shake up the industry's optical component supply chain
  • Silicon photonics will not displace VCSELs

 

An interview with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs' Martin Zirngibl, domain leader for enabling physical technologies, on the merits and potential impact of silicon photonics

 

 

 

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