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Silicon Photonics Breakthroughs
White Papers This presentation provides a vision to "Siliconize" Photonics for optical interconnects for Tera-Scale PCs and servers. The presentation provides a new Silicon Photonics breakthrough to make arrays of low cost Tera-Bit links and explains how...
[November 4, 2006, 0:00]
Intel splits light to speed chips
News Intel has developed a method to marry silicon and photonics, potentially increasing the speed computer chips communicate with each other. Photonics, that branch of physics that deals with transmitting information using light waves, is seen as the...
[February 17, 2004, 9:30]
Tiny plastic tube helps computer communication
News Researchers at the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre have developed a small multichannel optical fibre that has the potential to improve the way that computer chips communicate with each other.
[January 6, 2004, 11:15]
Intel claims quantum leap in fibre-optic detectors
News According to Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and director of Intel's photonics lab, this is due to the high cost of rare transition metals used in the optical devices. Photonics] is today a technology predominately made with what we call exotic...
[December 8, 2008, 10:33]
Intel demonstrates silicon laser
News This is a scientific breakthrough, and a psychological breakthrough, because no one thought you could do it," said Mario Paniccia, director of the photonics technology lab at Intel. Current optical equipment requires that the optical fibre serving...
[February 17, 2005, 14:05]
Intel showcases new technologies
News We're hard at work to demonstrate a complete silicon photonics transceiver this year," Rattner said. Rattner and Mike Mayberry, vice president of Intel's technology and manufacturing group, described one: silicon photonics, in which light rather...
[June 22, 2009, 13:19]
Advanced Payload Architectures for Future Telecommunication Satellites
White Papers Of these - mostly borrowed from terrestrial communications - optics, microwave photonics, digital processing and cryogenics are of special interest for future multimedia satellites. Long term (post-2012, say), satellite operators anticipate a...
[November 30, 2006, 0:00]
Japan gets to work on 4G comms
News CRL is a lab with links to the Japanese government that researches communications and photonics (the integration of functions typically handled by optical fibre into silicon chips), covering areas from ultrawideband radio to satellites.
[May 6, 2003, 15:47]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog I learn that silicon photonics is cooking nicely, and that we should expect an infrared photodetector announcement in the next quarter or two. Thursday 9/3/2006 Last day of IDF, and things are picking up.
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
HP picks academic institutions for research funding
News According to HP, a number of projects will focus on the science of photonics, which has potential applications in optical fibre communications and could one day spell the death of copper connections in blades and semiconductors.
[August 15, 2008, 15:12]
Intel In Slide
Leader It has new ideas for memory, embedded processors, display devices, wireless and photonics -- but it has few new products. Things should be rosy for Intel. It's decided that the future is multi-core, and the rest of the industry agrees.
[October 19, 2004, 12:00]
Giving by tech leaders tumbles
News Fitzpatrick, former chairman of E-TEK Dynamics, who gave $50m for photonics research at Duke University and Stanford University. With the economy and stock market slumping in 2001, it's small wonder that donations to charities by leaders in the...
[January 3, 2002, 6:31]
Nokia and Cambridge team up on nanotechnology
News That collaboration had seen Intel and Cambridge University work together on a variety of technologies, from photonics to wireless networking. Nokia and Cambridge University have announced what they say will be a long-term research and development...
[March 7, 2007, 14:53]
Ciena delivers upside surprise
News With growing acceptance of the company's product lines, we believe Ciena is one of the best-positioned companies on the photonics sector," said Wit SoundView analysts Kevin Slocum, in a note ahead of Ciena's earnings.
[December 7, 2000, 16:21]
Intel spices up silicon for ultrafast future
News We will be able to integrate photonics a lot more efficiency, and finally get die-to-die optical interconnects, as well as on-chip lasers and sensors. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, Intel's director of technology...
[March 10, 2006, 14:15]
HP introduces new chip mould
News We're talking about optics and photonics. And the device takes only a few minutes to install. The machine is a system for imprint lithography. Imprint lithography sounds like what it is: a mould with an intricate pattern is pressed into a substrate...
[May 2, 2007, 10:38]
Gloom as Intel closes Cambridge lab
News We were trying to work with them on future technologies for linking computers," said Richard Penty, Professor of Photonics, on Monday. Intel has announced it is to shut the research laboratory it was running in conjunction with Cambridge University...
[October 30, 2006, 15:19]
The Day Ahead: New Focus eyes strong IPO
News In some cases, we supply test equipment and photonics tools to competitors of our fiber optics components business. The optimism may be warranted. In a dead IPO market, New Focus has what it takes to generate a buzz.
[May 16, 2000, 12:37]
Toshiba shows practical quantum cryptography
News Toshiba Research Europe demonstrated last week what it claims is the world's first reliable automated quantum cryptography system and run it continuously for over a week. The system, which relies on single photons to transmit an untappable key over...
[December 13, 2004, 17:15]
Transmission of IEEE802.16d WiMAX Signals Over Radio-Over-Fibre IMDD Links
White Papers In this paper, an overview of RoF technology is provided, followed by the description of suitable architectures for the deployment of WIMAX networks employing RoF systems. Finally, experiments demonstrating the feasibility of RoF technology to...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
