Oracle Networking Group in the USA believes that it has made the first demonstration of an integrated surface-normal coupled laser array on a silicon-on-insulator photonics platform [Shiyun Lin et al, Optics Express, vol24, p21455, 2016]. ...
Applied Micro Circuits Corp of Santa Clara, CA, USA (which provides silicon-based computing and connectivity solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers), BrPhotonics (BrP) of Campinas-SP, Brazil (a joint venture ...
Tags: Applied Micro, BrP, MACOM
Mellanox Technologies Ltd of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and Yokneam, Israel (a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for data-center servers and storage systems) has announced the availability of 25Gb/s ...
John Bowers, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been selected to receive the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics ...
Tags: Integrated Photonics, PICs
ICT-STREAMS, a part of the European Union Horizon 2020 program, is a new three-year project launched on 1 February (followed by a kick-off meeting at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on 24-25 February) with the goal of ...
Tags: III-Vs-on-Si, silicon photonics
EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, will host a special session at the 41st Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE 2015) conference--a leading ...
Imec of Leuven, Belgium and its partners have completed a three-year program (2012-2015) to leverage a variety of silicon photonics technologies by making them accessible for industry and academia worldwide. Within the ESSenTIAL program ...
Tags: Silicon photonics, ESSenTIAL program, electrical equipment
KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has used corrugated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (CELOG) to create heterojunctions consisting of n-type indium phosphide (n-InP) and p-type silicon (p-Si) [Y. T. Sun et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Tags: corrugated epitaxial, silicon
Avago Technologies Ltd (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for communications, storage, consumer and industrial applications) has announced sample availability of its 100G QSFP28 SR4 and CFP4 LR4 transceiver ...
The computing and telecoms industries are developing systems to store information in the cloud and analyze enormous amounts of data. IBM Research says that it has demonstrated what could be a key step toward commercializing this next ...
Tags: IBM, CMOS.Electronics
Texas Instruments Inc (TI), which develops analog ICs and embedded processors, has introduced its first transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for the 100G optical networking market. TI says that, as a key component of the system, the ONET2804T ...
Tags: TIA, TI, Electrical
Furukawa Electric Co Ltd of Tokyo, Japan has developed a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that operates at 25Gbps and has realized transmission of up to 500m over prototype multimode fibers developed by optical fiber product ...
Tags: optical fiber product, cloud computing, Increasing the VCSEL wavelength
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that its laser epiwafer technology has been employed to develop ultra-high-efficiency optical interconnects, as reported in two technical papers presented by Germany's ...
Tags: IQE, laser epiwafer technology, laser, wafers
The global silicon photonics market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate(CAGR)of 24.5%from$88.6m in 2013 to$410.78m in 2020,according to the report'Silicon Photonics Market by Products(Silicon Optical ...
Tags: silicon photonics, silicon, telecom
"We have inherent high precision alignment, which is something the standard method of creating optical waveguides lacks. Our technology can go to 3D, which is a capability that sets us apart from the rest of the market," says Dr Markus ...