2 posts and columns on electro-optic

IBM's Next Project: the Illudium Q-36 Electro-Optic Space Modulator

in News on December 6, 2007 at 1:55 pm PT

It’s still 10 to 12 years away from market, but when it arrives IBM’s new silicon photonics technology could transform even the lowliest Dell laptop into a portable Blue Gene. The so-called Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator transmits data between between multiple cores on a chip using pulses of light through silicon, instead of electrical signals on [...]

IBM’s Next Project: the Illudium Q-36 Electro-Optic Space Modulator

in News on December 6, 2007 at 1:55 pm PT

It’s still 10 to 12 years away from market, but when it arrives IBM’s new silicon photonics technology could transform even the lowliest Dell laptop into a portable Blue Gene. The so-called Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator transmits data between between multiple cores on a chip using pulses of light through silicon, instead of electrical signals on [...]