Photonic chips with quantum lasers are finally being built without redesigning the whole system These lasers work directly on silicon and still survive high heat for over six years University of ...

Technology promises to drive wider use of photonics in computers and other electronic devices Using standard silicon manufacturing processes, researchers from Intel (Santa Clara, CA) and the ...

In a milestone for scalable quantum technologies, scientists from Boston University, UC Berkeley, and Northwestern University have reported the world’s first electronic–photonic–quantum system on a ...

Lasers that are fabricated directly onto silicon photonic chips offer several advantages over external laser sources, such as greater scalability. Furthermore, photonic chips with these ...

Concentrating light in a volume as small as the wavelength itself is a challenge that is crucial for numerous applications. Researchers from AMOLF, TU Delft, and Cornell University in the U.S. have ...

Electrically controlled silicon photonic devices use carbon nanotube heaters to modulate and filter terahertz waves on chip with stable performance, enabling compact tunable components for high ...

The rapid rise of photonic chips, which use light to process data instead of electrons, may offer faster means to transmit data. But scaling such chips has been held back by one stubborn issue: ...

Slight temperature changes, imperceptible manufacturing imperfections, and heat generated by their own components can completely ruin an entire quantum quantum system-on-chip. Silicon photonics could ...