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After silicon: What will power computing for the next 10 years and beyond?

...out of future cloud computing," he added. HP's Williams also believes photonics will also be doing great things to the guts of our electronics... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Photonics for broadband gets £20m EU boost

...The European Commission has launched 13 research projects to spur development of photonics technologies for cheap and pervasive 1Gb broadband across the EU. European commissioner... Read more

28 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

EC's Kroes tries to woo photonics industry

...Digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has invited the photonics industry to enter into a public-private partnership with the European Commission... Read more

25 February, 2011 by David Meyer

Commission seeks bids for ?780m of IT funding

...develop technology around the future internet, robotics, smart and embedded systems and photonics, as well as IT for health and energy efficiency, it said on... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Jack Clark
Intel's latest chip tech in action

Intel's latest chip tech in action

...Here are Intel's brand-new silicon photonics, on display and working. Here, the transmitter on the right is feeding... Read more

23 September, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Scientists hit record-breaking 26Tbps by laser

...onto a single light source. – Research team The technology, described in Nature Photonics on Sunday, could one day be worked into a single system-on... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM adds light to chips for terabit speeds

...the potential for a clear advantage over Intel's demonstrated 50Gbps silicon photonics technology, Assefa said. "One major difference here is that Intel is basically... Read more

2 December, 2010 by Jack Clark

Quantum computing: Beyond computing's final frontier

...of the existing computing proposals - whether they're based on silicon or photonics or, I don't know, a system of pulleys and levers - they... Read more

24 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

Intel has brought together six years of silicon photonics research into two chips, combining ultra-fast optics with silicon production techniques... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Intel shows off ultra-fast silicon optical network

...future", said Dr Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and director of Intel's Photonics Technology lab. The demonstration system builds on many previous announcements by Intel... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Absorbing physics reverses laser

Yale researchers who have created the first-ever reverse laser say the technology could be used for 'novel functionalities' in next-generation optical communications and computing applications Read more

18 February, 2011 by David Meyer
Integrated <endeca_term>Photonics</endeca_term> for Low-Power Packet Networking

Integrated Photonics for Low-Power Packet Networking

...computing applications exponential growth in capacity. Key to maximizing the benefits of photonics technology is highly functional, lower power, and large-scale photonics integration. In... Read more

1 April, 2011
Laser Focus World 1.7.10

Laser Focus World 1.7.10

...manufacturing and more The Laser Focus World Application provides current original laser, photonics and optics industry content as well as headlines and company financials from... Read more

24 May, 2012
OptoIQ Optics Technology News and Products 1.7.9

OptoIQ Optics Technology News and Products 1.7.9

OptoIQ.com delivers the latest news, products, and analysis about optics and photonics to industry professionals worldwide. Key areas of coverage include lasers & sources, optics... Read more

25 April, 2012
CVI Melles Griot Technical Guide 1.2

CVI Melles Griot Technical Guide 1.2

...Technical Guide is a wonderful reference for all of your optics and photonics questions. The technical guide covers everything from Aspheres to Zinc Selenide Lenses... Read more

10 March, 2012

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