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19th March 2008, 10:31 AM
IBM Develops Nanophotonic Switch to Transfer Data Inside Future Chips.
IBM Creates Critical Element of On-Chip Optical Network
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by Anton Shilov
[ 03/17/2008 | 11:58 PM ]
IBM scientists on Monday took another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about 100x smaller than the cross section of a human hair.
“This new development is a critical addition in the quest to build an on-chip optical network. In view of all the progress that this field has seen for the last few years it looks that our vision for on-chip optical networks is becoming more and more realistic,” said Yurii Vlasov, manager of silicon nanophotonics at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center.
Read On (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/200803 17235857_IBM_Develops_Nanophotonic_Switch_to_Trans fer_Data_Inside_Future_Chips.html)
IBM Creates Critical Element of On-Chip Optical Network
Category: Other
by Anton Shilov
[ 03/17/2008 | 11:58 PM ]
IBM scientists on Monday took another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about 100x smaller than the cross section of a human hair.
“This new development is a critical addition in the quest to build an on-chip optical network. In view of all the progress that this field has seen for the last few years it looks that our vision for on-chip optical networks is becoming more and more realistic,” said Yurii Vlasov, manager of silicon nanophotonics at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center.
Read On (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/200803 17235857_IBM_Develops_Nanophotonic_Switch_to_Trans fer_Data_Inside_Future_Chips.html)