Silicon Photonics

An array of electro-optical components fabricated as a silicon-based photonic IC provides narrowband passband and notch filtering above 10 GHz.

Demand for networking bandwidth in the data center is no longer sustainable. Enter optical I/O.

Researchers are leveraging semiconductor materials and processes to devise photonic ICs with impressive functions and bandwidth.

By harnessing the basic properties of light and using photonics to speed computing, systems can be made that extend Moore’s Law. However, myths have emerged about the technology...

The 51.2-Tb/s Bailly chip puts eight optical engines in a package with the Tomahawk 5 switch.

OpenLight’s Tom Mader talks about silicon photonics and advances in lasers, and the launch of his new company.

Tencent will be the first to deploy the co-packaged optical switch in its cloud data centers.

A new silicon-photonics process developed by GlobalFoundries has the backing of Ayar Labs, Broadcom, Cisco, Marvell, and NVIDIA.