{"id":1765,"date":"2011-11-23T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2012-10-16T19:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:09:29","slug":"mit-creates-diode-for-light-makes-photonic-silicon-chips-possible-extremetech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"MIT creates diode for light, makes photonic silicon chips possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the near term, though, garnet-on-silicon chips are likely to be used in networking \u2014 first in backbone routers, which are physically huge and very power hungry because of the current size of optical switching hardware, and then hopefully at home and in the office (100Gbps home networks!) Then, once the size of MIT\u2019s diode for light is scaled down \u2014 it\u2019s currently around 400nm long, some 20 times larger than a transistor \u2014 we might begin to see photonic circuits in computers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/106433-mit-creates-diode-for-light-makes-photonic-silicon-chips-possible\">MIT creates diode for light, makes photonic silicon chips possible | ExtremeTech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the near term, though, garnet-on-silicon chips are likely to be used in networking \u2014 first in backbone routers, which are physically huge and very power hungry because of the current size of optical switching hardware, and then hopefully at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1765\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[387,196,809],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-mit","tag-optical-networks","tag-photonic-circuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}