Morning Coffee: Optics Bright Outlook

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Lasers have been integrated directly into silicon microcircuit chips in a joint research effort announced this week by Intel and the University of California at Santa Barbara

Optical hardware lacks the equivalents of memory or logic circuits for processing layered network protocols. That’s a serious flaw as verbose XML approaches become central to new network applications. New burst techniques, though, such as those used in

Overshadowed by Intel’s ‘someday soon’ announcement was the late-August sampling release of actual photonic devices, integrated into standard CMOS processes.

Later this month, Mitsubishi Electric Corp will show what it claims to be the first compact optical transceiver supporting dense wavelength division multiple

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