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An advantage of the silicon photonics (over other on-chip optical technologies) is that we can leverage a lot of the experience that we have with silicon to fab
by forgotpwagain 10y ago
An advantage of the silicon photonics (over other on-chip optical technologies) is that we can leverage a lot of the experience that we have with silicon to fabricate these devices. There are still large technological challenges, since we often need to introduce new types of materials, etc, but we're not _totally_ out of luck -- there's useful knowledge that can be carried over.
- dekhn 10y agoit's pretty clear what's being built here is outside of what typical fabs can build. You need a research fab with top of line equipment. The article basically says they had to do chip-style architecture to get the optical paths to be stable enough to do reliable computing.