Photonic silicon chips operate at 1.5 gigabits per second
May 19, 2005 | Source: KurzweilAI
Cornell University researchers have taken a major step in getting electronics and photonics to talk to each other, using a silicon device that allows an electrical signal to modulate a beam of light at a micron scale.
The work is described in a paper published in the May 19, 2005, issue of Nature.