Computing with silicon-based photonic chips - next generation ultra power computing
Sunita Agarwal
Nov. 28, 2011

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed microelectronic technology that could lead to the creation of silicon-based photonic chips. This will help much faster data processing and parallel channels of data processing. This is a significant step forward in competing because human brains work the same way with zillion parallel processing neurons act together.

The new device is a diode for light that can help process data much faster taking the computation to a new level. The diode for light is somewhat similar to an electronic diode. An electronic diode allows an electric current to flow in one direction only blocking the other way. Of course, the light diode creates a one-way path for light instead of electricity. This is a significant step towards optical comporting enabling much faster computing and allowing parallel channels in fiber optics carrying separate data streams to pass through a single optical fiber without interference.

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