Friday, December 28, 2012

Fiber Optic Chips in Computers a Reality

The communications network has fiber optic sections and in some cases fiber optic cable directly to the home or business. However, those transmissions are converted to analog (copper or coax wire) signals to interact with landline phones, televisions and computers. If these devices contained fiber optic components, communications would transmit at the speed of light.

Mario Paniccia, director of Intel’s photonics lab in Santa Clara, CA,  announced, “Our new integrated optical link makes that possible.”

Read the article written in the MIT Technology Review website for this exciting development.

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