Replacing the electronic components that connect devices with
photonic components could cut energy use by 20 to 75 percent, Justin Norman, a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, said.
They're also working on designing epitaxial waveguides and other
photonic components, Norman said.
PIC technology offers a way to integrate
photonic components — such as the lasers and detectors used by the new quantum random generator — onto a chip with a small footprint and low power consumption.
The new technique could also be used to create nanoscale «inkjet printers» for printing electronics or biological cells, or to create antennas or
photonic components.
It can couple to silicon waveguides to interface with standard integrated
photonic components and chips.
Others require additional off - chip
photonic components that would have to be precisely positioned relative to the lasers.
Some require positioning
photonic components so closely together that they'd be difficult to manufacture.
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have reported a breakthrough in chip design that integrates electronic and
photonic components and could lead to smaller, lighter... Read more
Not exact matches
They've been developing lasers — a crucial
component of
photonic circuits — that work seamlessly on silicon.
Researchers have also been able to coat their DNA objects with plastics, metals, and other materials to fashion tiny machine
components, electronics, and
photonic devices.
«We use the functionality and advantages of both
components,» says the study's lead author, Dr. Helge Hattermann, «The combination of the two unequal quantum systems could enable us to create a real quantum processor with superconducting quantum lattices, atomic quantum storage, and
photonic qubits.»
But he adds that it may be another 15 years before a full range of optical
components, including laser sources and optical amplifiers, are ready to be integrated together: «Only then can we talk about using
photonic chips in real commercial products.»
«Because ultimately one will want to make such optical processors with maybe tens or hundreds of
photonic qubits, it becomes unwieldy to do this using traditional optical
components,» says Dirk Englund, the Jamieson Career Development Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and corresponding author on the new paper.
The research team from the Centre for Photonics and
Photonic Materials, and the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Bath, used a special white - light laser built in - house and directed it through several optical
components to put a twist on the beam.
Shi and his colleagues have designed a tunable filter — an important
component of high - capacity optical networks — that should save both money and energy because it can be readily integrated onto a
photonic chip.
A central
component of the MIRPHAB sensor solutions is being provided by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF in Freiburg in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for
Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden.
Photonic devices require a high contrast between its
component materials, with some
components having a high refractive index and others have a low one.
Ritesh Agarwal's research on
photonic computing has been focused on finding the right combination and physical configuration of materials that can amplify and mix light waves in ways that are analogous to electronic computer
components.
Agarwal's research on
photonic computing has been focused on finding the right combination and physical configuration of materials that can amplify and mix light waves in ways that are analogous to electronic computer
components.
Nanometre - scale gold particles are intensively investigated for applications as catalysts, sensors, drug delivery devices and biological contrast agents and as
components in
photonics and molecular electronics.
Another report said Himax will supply
components for Apple, adding that optical and
photonic products manufacturer Lumentum will supply parts as well.
Now, a separate report also says Himax will supply
components for Apple, and optical and
photonic products manufacturer Lumentum will supply parts as well.