Interesting article as "photonics moves closer to chips"

Aiming to become the global leader in chip-scale photonic solutions by deploying Optical Interposer technology to enable the seamless integration of electronics and photonics for a broad range of vertical market applications

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Interesting article as "photonics moves closer to chips"

posted on Jun 29, 2016 02:26PM

A few excerpts from the article below. POET has the solutions, still not recognized by the industry.

“In the early 2000s there was a lot of energy being put into photonics,” said Gnyaneshwar Ramakrishna, chairman of the photonics technical committee for IEEE’s Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society.“ That died down for a while.

At this point no one knows how far this technology will go, or the timing of when it will begin to show up in packages or on chips. “Bringing it into the chip is everybody’s dream,” said Ramakrishna. “To make that happen, architectural solutions and technologies need to come into place. Right now, those building blocks are in progress.

For processors to utilize photonics, optical signals need to be converted to electrical signals. Research is underway to process and store optical signals, sidestepping that entire conversion process, but most experts believe it will be years before a solution is ready, and even then it’s questionable whether it will be cost-effective.