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Photonic Communication

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Photonic Communication:

Photonics is the physical science of light generation or the detection. Most of the applications
are in the range of the visible and near-infrared light. Regarding the photonic, it was first
developed as the outgrowth of the first practical semiconductor which was invented in the
1960s. The photonic has now being developed and used in the computers to transmit the data.
With the help of the Optoelectronic and the top silicon manufacturer, the Ayar labs aim to
increase the speed of computing and to reduce the energy consumption in the computers
(Roelkens et al. 2015). It has been a great discovery as the chip has been developed to move
the data with light, but it computes electronically. This is a unique design which has replaced
the less efficient copper wires with efficient optical communications into the traditional
computer chip.

Figure: Photonic Communication

It has been believed that the chip can reduce the consumption of energy by 95% regarding
data transition by the chip to chip. It has been seen that the chip can also be used in the larger
data centres which that believe can reduce the energy consumption by 30 to 50 per cent. The
main idea of research of photonic communication is to increase the data transmission
(Roelkens et al. 2015). It has been seen that the number of the transistor has been doubled by
the year, but the amount of data pushed across the copper wire has not been increased. The
researcher has used the light as because the researcher has found that the optical wire can
transmit the data signals in various wavelengths while the copper wire can transmit only one
signal at a time.
Reference:

Roelkens, G., Abbasi, A., Cardile, P., Dave, U., De Groote, A., De Koninck, Y., ... & Huang,
Q. (2015, September). III-V-on-silicon photonic devices for optical communication and
sensing. In Photonics (Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 969-1004). Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing
Institute.

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