MIT researchers have built a nanoscale photonic device shaped like a tiny ski jump that launches laser light directly off a silicon chip and steers it through free space. Reported by MIT on March 11, ...

Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in many conventional systems. But once that light is trapped on the chip, ...

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of California, Irvine, has demonstrated a fundamentally new way to make silicon emit light—overcoming one of the most ...

Despite being a mature technology in existence for over several decades, silicon photonic modulators face scrutiny from industry and academic experts. In a recent editorial interview, experts ...

A University of Washington-led team, with MIT and Intel, has developed a programmable photonic integrated circuit that uses phase-change materials to eliminate static power consumption. The chip can ...

Copper connections in large AI systems, where thousands of processors collaborate to train models or analyze information, often slow down data transmission. But silicon photonics may be stepping in to ...

The concept of using silicon photonics to transmit signals has been talked about and researched for years, but the absence of a compelling-enough application to justify the technology’s high cost has ...