Sentences with phrase «light on a silicon chip»

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Instead of light, computers run on electrons moving through silicon - based chips — which, despite huge advances, are still less efficient than photonics.

Their findings elucidate the physics of light - matter coupling at these scales — and pave the way for enhanced signal processing on mass - producible silicon photonic chips.

To help do that, the U engineers created a much smaller form of a polarization beamsplitter (which looks somewhat like a barcode) on top of a silicon chip that can split guided incoming light into its two components.

Incorporating silicon materials within the fibre geometry avoids the issues associated with coupling between the micron - sized fibres used for the transport of light, and the nanoscale waveguides on - chip that are employed for data processing and communications systems.

A team of researchers has built an array of light detectors sensitive enough to register the arrival of individual light particles, or photons, and mounted them on a silicon optical chip.

As the group reports in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, integrating subwavelength cavities — the essential building blocks of their tiny lasers — onto silicon enabled them to create and demonstrate high - density on - chip light - emitting elements.

To improve the efficiency of waveguides — devices that guide light on the surface of silicon optical computer chips — a complex balance must be struck.

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