Intel’s advanced Silicon Photonics : A world record performance
The well known Chip-maker giant Intel has announced that it has created a new world record with revolutionary way of communication by using a new technology to create very high performing optical devices. This technology is called Silicon Photonics, based on silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector (APD), uses standard silicon to send and receive optical information among computers and other electronic devices. The use of Avalanche Photodetector (APD) will reduce the cost compared to other commercially optical devices.
Mario Paniccia said, Ph.D. Intel Fellow and director of the company’s Photonics Technology Lab
This research result is another example of how silicon can be used to create very high-performing optical devices,In addition to optical communication, these silicon-based APDs could also be applied to other areas such as sensing, imaging, quantum cryptography or biological applications
Researchers of the silicon-based APD revealed that- a light sensor that achieves superior sensitivity by detecting light and amplifying weak signals as light is directed onto silicon. APDs are light sensors that process optical communications to electrical signals. Intel’s APD has a gain-bandwidth product of 340GHz, the best result ever reported for an APD & able to address bandwidth needs of data-intensive computing applications. Silicon Photonics will provide substantial size, cost, and power savings over traditional optical communication solutions.
features of Intel’s advanced Silicon Photonics are
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World-record performance by silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector
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Ultra-fast transfer of data for future computers powered by many processor cores
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Ability to deliver higher-speed mainstream computing at a lower cost
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Light sensor that achieves superior sensitivity by detecting light
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Amplifying weak signals as light is directed onto silicon
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APD device achieve a "gain-bandwidth product" of 340 GHz
