Short, On-Chip Light Pulses will Enable Ultrafast Data Transfer within Computers (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Short, On-Chip Light Pulses will Enable Ultrafast Data Transfer within Computers

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Scanning electron micrograph of dispersive grating before deposition of SiO2 overcladding. This grating enabled electrical engineers to generate short, powerful light pulses on a chip – an important step toward the optical interconnects that will likely replace the copper wires that carry information between chips within today’s computers. University of California, San Diego electrical engineers recently developed the first ultra compact, low power pulse compressor on a silicon chip to be described in the scientific literature. Details appeared online in the journal Nature Communications on Nov. 16.

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