Many of the silicon photonic building blocks have been demonstrated to operate at 40 Gbit/s, including a high-speed silicon modulator and SiGe-based photodetector. Wavelength conversion and ...

Their approach, which was described at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) which is taking place in Glasgow, combines a SiGe BiCMOS traveling-wave electronics integrated circuit ...

Posted: Mar 14, 2008 Silicon photonics (Nanowerk Spotlight) In its everlasting quest to deliver more data faster and on smaller components, the silicon industry is moving full steam ahead towards its ...

Mar 08, 2021 Lights on for silicon photonics (Nanowerk News) When it comes to microelectronics, there is one chemical element like no other: silicon, the workhorse of the transistor technology that ...

The approach combines a silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS traveling-wave IC and a silicon photonics (SiPh) germanium photodetector, according to Imec, offering both scalability and speed to meet ...

The demonstration of electroluminescence at terahertz frequencies from a silicon-germanium device marks a key step towards the long-sought goal of a silicon-based laser.

“Where a standard modulator is probably about 1mm, a silicon based capacitive modulator is about 500µm, but a SiGe version measures 40µm.” By combining CMOS electronics and silicon photonics with high ...

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Researchers in Europe have found a way to make silicon-germanium (SiGe) alloys emit light efficiently, a breakthrough that has the potential to revolutionize integrated silicon photonics. Led by Jos ...

Intel has developed a device, called the Avalance Photodetector (APD), that will boost optical communication speeds to get devices to communicate faster. The APD senses light pulses and amplifies ...

Inphi’s innovative Silicon Photonics PAM4 technology is the industry’s first low power, cost effective 100G DWDM platform solution in QSFP28 form factor for between data center interconnects.

Intel already has a hybrid silicon laser in its portfolio, which is used on its silicon photonics transceivers for converting electrical signals into light. So, it’s focusing on the other five ...