Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that its epitaxial wafer technology has been used in conjunction with the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) to help develop 1.3μm-emitting quantum dot ...
Tags: silicon technology, semiconductor devices, laser components
At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2014) in San Francisco (9–13 March), the fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA is demonstrating a 100G ...
As demand surges for long-reach, low-power solutions supporting next-generation 28Gbps products and data-center applications, high-speed fiber-optic interconnect firm Molex Inc of Lisle, IL, USA plans to unveil a line of QuatroScale active ...
Tags: Molex AOC, Electrical, Electronics
In booth #1531 at the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2014) in San Francisco, CA (11-13 March), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog ...
Tags: coherent optical link design, live demonstration, VCSEL driver
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and epiwafer foundry IQE Inc have developed 1.3μm-wavelength indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) lasers grown on silicon (Si) with “record performance” [Alan Y. Liu et al, ...
Tags: Silicon, `Quantum Dot Lasers
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
Intel has unveiled a raft of new innovations and software tools to tap the power of Big Data at the Supercomputing Conference 2013 held in Denver, Colorado. At the 25th conference for the HPC community, the company revealed how the ...
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The addressable market for chip-level optical interconnects could eventually run into billions of units, as revenues rise to almost $520m by 2019 then $1.02bn by 2021, according to the report 'Revenue Opportunities for Optical ...
Semiconductor laser developer BinOptics Corp, Ithaca, NY, USA, has incorporated its patented Etched Facet Technology (EFT) into a variety of silicon photonic applications. The company says creating indium phosphide-based lasers and other ...
Tags: BinOptics, Semiconductor laser, Electrical, Electronics
An optical interconnect introduced by Intel on Wednesday may someday slim down cabling throughout data centers if the company can get enough vendors to mass-produce it. The interconnect, which Intel is calling MXC, is designed to offer ...
Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centres. The chip maker is pitching MXC as a ...
Tags: Intel, Data Transfers
Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in MEMs and LED manufacturing, and breakthroughs in silicon photonics and printed/flexible electronics. But what comes next? The ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in LED manufacturing. The latest manufacturing, materials and production developments will be showcased at SEMICON West 2013, which ...
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany (the largest solar energy research institute in Europe) has joined forces with EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Electrical
Mellanox Technologies Ltd of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and Yokneam, Israel, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions for servers and storage systems, has agreed to acquire privately held Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, ...