Researchers establish principles for transmitting light-delivered data via nonreciprocal circuits
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 10:30
in Physics & Chemistry
The development of fiber optics technology has been indispensable to increasing the speed at which information is delivered over large distances by relying on light to carry information rather than electricity. Currently, incoming light signals are converted into electrical signals, after which the information they carry is processed. Digital communications and sharing of information would be even faster and more energy efficient if light could be used throughout the entire process, but significant additional advances in integrated optical circuits and light-based computing are still required.