Inventor's Day Series: Mario Paniccia Discusses Silicon Photonics
Mario Paniccia is Intel’s silicon photonics “guru,” and he’s here to talk about the how’s and why’s and what’s of silicon photonics. Forget about electricity, we could be using fiber and lasers as the backbone of our computing, providing faster capabilities over longer distances for data-intensive computing applications like remote medicine, lifelike 3-D virtual worlds or even the ability to download libraries of movies and music in mere seconds.
What is silicon photonics? Imagine that you are replacing copper with optical fiber and the electrons with photons. That’s the promise of silicon photonics: affordable optical communications for everything. It will let manufacturers build optical components using the same semiconductor equipment and methods they use now for ordinary integrated circuits, thereby dramatically lowering the cost of photonics
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