Category Archives: Components
Rewriting the history of the laser
Winston Churchill famously said that history is written by the victors. In the case of the laser it might be more accurate to say that history was written by those with the best public relations team.
ECOC 2009: Technology, money, people
Here’s a copy of my leader article in the ECOC magazine:
And so to Vienna for the 35th year of ECOC, which is billed — quite rightly in my view — as the leading optical networking event in Europe. Personal highlights from last year included the post-deadline paper from Alcatel-Lucent and Draka, which reported 40 [...]
Intel's silicon detector is a runaway success
Intel is claiming another first for silicon photonics, with an avalanche photodiode that outperforms equivalent devices.
100G backers divided on best approach
The industry is not united behind DP-QPSK as the modulation format of choice for 100 Gbit/s transport.
Cool electronics: just add water
This article originally appeared on fibresystem.org.
We’ve all been taught that electronics and water don’t mix, but researchers at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory say that doesn’t have to be the case. In fact, they are proposing that tiny rivers of water be used to cool three-dimensional stacks of silicon chips in future generations of server processors [...]
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An interview with Kathleen Maiman