Publications on our Silicon Organic Waveguides
Image depicts chips on a silicon wafer. The fastest silicon chip has been fabricated in a collaborative effort of groups at the IPQ in Karlsruhe, the IMEC in Ghent, Lehigh Unversity and at ETH. The chip processes data at 170.8 Gbit/s.
Original Publication:
Koos, C. and Vorreau, P. and Vallaitis, T. and Dumon, P. and Bogaerts, W. and Baets, R. and Esembeson, B. and Biaggio, I. and Michinobu, T. and Diederich, F. and Freude, W. and Leuthold, J., All-optical high-speed signal processing with silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguides, Nat. Photon., 3, 216 - 219, April 2009 [link]
Media Coverage
June 2009 Physik Journal 8 (2009) Nr. 6, p. 16: Flinker Signalarbeiter
Ein optischer Mikrochip stellt einen neuen Rekord auf.
Seit Jahren ist bekannt, dass sich Signale optisch deutlich effizienter und mit höheren Geschwindigkeiten als auf optischem Wege verarbeiten lassen.
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June 1, 2009 Materials World Magazin: Silicon all-optical integrated circuits
All-optical broadband and telecommunications signal processing using silicon may soon be possible at transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s, according to a European research consortium.
The team, led by the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, claims to have proven the viability of silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) waveguides with highly non-linear and ultra-fast performance. Silicon-based devices are widely used in the electronics industry because they are inexpensive to manufacture.
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May 2, 2009 SWR2 Campus: Durchbruch in der Chipentwicklung
Karlsruher Forscher steigern die Rechnerleistung mit Licht.
Forschern vom Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) ist nun ein entscheidender Durchbruch gelungen: Sie kombinieren das Beste aus den zwei Welten Siliziumtechnologie und Photonik, der Datenübertragung mit Licht. Mit einem neuen Molekül verpassen sie den Chips in den Rechnern einen Turbolader aus Licht und machen Geräte und Anwendungen damit vier mal schneller als bisher.
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April 27, 2009 ZDNet.de: Optischer Siliziumchip verarbeitet 170,8 GBit/s
Ein internationales Forscherteam hat nach eigenen Angaben einen Chip entwickelt, der viermal leistungsfähiger als der bisherige Rekordhalter ist. Er ermöglicht es, ein optisches Datensignal, das mit 170,8 Gigabit pro Sekunde arbeitet, so umzuschreiben, dass daraus vier Datenströme mit 42,7 Gigabit pro Sekunde entstehen. Diese können anschließend auf elektronischem Wege weiterverarbeitet werden.
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April 27, 2009 c't magazin: Optischer Hybrid-CMOS-Demultiplexer verarbeitet 171 GBit an Daten pro Sekunde
Als Herzstück des Demultiplexers haben die Forscher um die Professoren Jürg Leuthold und Wolfgang Freude vom Institut für Photonik und Quantenelektronik (IPQ, zuvor IHQ) der Uni Karlsruhe einen 4 Millimeter langen Wellenleiter aus einem silizium-organischen Hybridmaterial erzeugt, der einen Rekordwert beim nichtlinearen Koeffizienten erreicht. Die lichtführenden Bahnen auf dem mit CMOS-Fertigungstechnik bearbeiteten Siliziumchip haben einen 100 Nanometer feinen Spalt, den das Hybridmaterial vollständig ausfüllt.
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April 25, 2009 BNN. Badische Neueste Nachrichten Karlsruhe: KIT-Forscher: Neuer Silizium-Chip bricht Rekorde
Rasante Erfindung: Der von Karlsruhern mit entwickelte Chip kann Daten von 2,5 Millionen Telefonanrufern verarbeiten.
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April 24, 2009 pro-physik: Optischer Silizium-Chip bricht alle Rekorde
Ein internationales Forscherteam hat einen Chip entwickelt, der viermal leistungsfähiger als der bisherige Rekordhalter ist. Er verspricht ein preiswerteres und schnelleres Internet und die Verarbeitung größerer Bilddatenmengen. Die Wissenschaftler, unter ihnen vier Forscher vom Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), setzten dabei auf die Kombination von Organischer Chemie und Silizium-Technologie. Ihren Erfolg publizierten die Forscher in der April-Ausgabe von Photonics Nature.
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April 24, 2009 Presseinformation 037/2009: Optischer Silizium-Chip bricht alle Rekorde
Ein internationales Forscherteam hat einen Chip entwickelt, der viermal leistungsfähiger als der bisherige Rekordhalter ist. Er verspricht ein preiswerteres und schnelleres Internet und die Verarbeitung größerer Bilddatenmengen. Die Wissenschaftler, unter ihnen vier Forscher vom Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), setzten dabei auf die Kombination von Organischer Chemie und Silizium-Technologie. Ihren Erfolg publizierten die Forscher in der April-Ausgabe von Photonics Nature.
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April 14, 2009 IMEC News: Important breakthrough towards silicon-based all-optical integrated circuits
The April issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics publishes the first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing with silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s.The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.
Mar. 21, 2009 ScienceDaily: New Organic Material May Speed Internet Access; Telecom Breakthrough Mimics The Settling Snow
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks. What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds. Biaggio, an associate professor of physics at Lehigh University, is part of an international team of researchers that has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction and has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
17.03.2009 Innovations Report: New organic material may speed Internet access
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks. What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds.
April 14, 2009 i-micronews: Important breakthrough towards silicon-based all-optical integrated circuits
The April issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics publishes the first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing with silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s. The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.
March 16th, 2009 TopTenReviews: New Silicon-Organic Hybrid Material Could Make Internet Even Faster
The term “green” has become ubiquitous in politics and technology to describe efforts to lessen, prevent and even reverse environmental damage and unsustainable growth and energy consumption. Now, however, with scientists and engineers looking to nature for organic components to enhance and expand synthetic mechanisms, the term “green” has come full circle.
March 16, 2009 Lehigh University Press Release: Silicon-Organic-Hybrid Integrated Devices for All Optical Switching
Silicon-Organic-Hybrid Integrated Devices for All Optical Switching Our development of a high-quality supramolecular assembly of small molecules with a large third-order optical nonlinearity represents a new, flexible organic material for integrated nonlinear optics. One the best ways to control the propagation of a tightly focused optical mode in an organic material is not to build a waveguide using the material itself, but to combine the materail with silicon-waveguiding technology so that the silicon (transparent at telecommunication wavelengths!) will be responsible for controllilng the optical mode and its propagation, while the organic will be responsible for the nonlinear optical effects. Silicon processing technology has developed to the extent that millimeter-scale devices are routinely fabricated with nanometer precision in modern high-volume complementary metal oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) lines, making silicon-on-insulator (SOI) one of the most attractive platform for photonic circuits or integrated optics.
March 15, 2009 E Science News: New organic material may speed Internet access
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks. What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds.
March 16, 2009 R&D: Superfast optical switcher is a certified organic product
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks. What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds. Biaggio, an associate professor of physics at Lehigh University, is part of an international team of researchers that has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction and has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
March 15, 2009 sciencecodex: New organic material may speed Internet access
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks. What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds.
March 17th 2009 scientificblogging: Nonlinear Optics - How Bricks And Snow Could Show Us A Superfast Internet
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks. What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, an associate professor of physics at Lehigh University, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds. Biaggio is part of an international team of researchers that has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction and has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
090330 ETH Life: Hybrid schaltet schneller - Organische Materialien für Lichtwellenleiter
Silizium kombiniert mit dem organischen Material DDMEBT ergibt einen Lichtwellenleiter, der Lichtsignale modulieren kann und relativ einfach herzustellen ist. Dieser Erfolg eines internationalen Forscherteams könnte in der immer stärker auf Licht basierenden Telekommunikation breiten Einsatz finden. Das organische Material, welches den Durchbruch ermöglichte, synthetisierten ETH-Chemiker.
April 17, 2009 EDACafe - IMEC Announces Breakthrough in Silicon-Based All-Optical Integrated Circuits
The April issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics has published the first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing with silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s. The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA, and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.
April 15, 2009 IMEC advance hints at all-optical add-drop multiplexers
As bit rates in the optical backbone speed past 40 Gbits/s per wavelength, there is a fundamental problem with the front-end optical-to-electronic conversion process. As Roel Baets, head of the photonics research group at IMEC, points out, you can do the optical-to-electronic conversion at 10 Gbits/s, and you can think of ways to do it at 40 Gbits/s. But to convert a single optical pulse train at over 40 Gbits/s to electronic pulses is a daunting prospect at the least. A better approach, were it possible, would be to demultiplex the bit stream optically, producing several lower-rate bit streams that could then be converted. Such a demultiplexer would require an optical switching device capable of synchronous operation at over 100 Gbits/s—something that had been heretofore only speculation. But a recently-described breakthrough at the University of Karlsruhe, in collaboration with IMEC, Lehigh University, and ETH Zurich, has demonstrated optical demultiplexing at these speeds.
14 Apr 2009 Leuven.inc: Important breakthrough towards silicon-based all-optical integrated circuits
The April issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics publishes the first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing with silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s.The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany;Important breakthrough towards silicon-based all-optical integrated circuits IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.
April 13th, 2009 AZO Nanotechnology: Key Step Towards the Development of Complex Silicon-Based Photonic Integrated Circuits
The April issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics publishes the first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing with silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s. The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.