AUSTRALIA – Research led by Monash University, RMIT and the University of Adelaide has developed an accurate method of controlling optical circuits on fingernail-sized photonic integrated circuits.
The development, published in the journal Optica builds on the work by the same team who recently created the world’s first self-calibrated photonic chip.
Photonics, or the use of light particles to store and transmit information, is a burgeoning field, supporting our need to create faster, better, more efficient and more sustainable technology.
Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs), offer diverse signal processing functions within a single chip, and present promising solutions for applications ranging from optical communications to artificial intelligence.
Whether it’s downloading movies or keeping a satellite on course, photonics is radically changing the way we live, revolutionizing the processing capability of large scale equipment onto a chip the size of a human fingernail.
Earlier this year, researchers at Monash University, RMIT and the University of Adelaide developed an advanced photonic circuit which could transform the speed and scale of photonics technology. However, as the scale and complexity of PIC’s grows, the characterization, and thus calibration, of them becomes increasingly challenging.
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