ANALYSIS & OPINION
Astronomy on a chip
29 June 2018
Professor Dr Martin Roth, at research centre Innofspec Potsdam, discusses the role that fibre Bragg gratings and other photonics components could play in transforming astronomy
Silicon photonics
ANALYSIS & OPINION
Driving Moore’s law with CO2 lasers
14 June 2018
Matthew Dale reports from the European Photonic Industry Consortium’s Executive Meeting on Industrial Lasers, where it was explained how CO2 lasers could be used to produce the next generation of computer processors
FEATURE
Taking the heat off PICs
28 March 2018
Shrinking optoelectronic components and combining them with silicon devices requires careful consideration of thermal management, finds Andy Extance
FEATURE
Scaling spectroscopy
27 March 2018
Matthew Dale discovers how scaling spectrometers down to the chip level enables them to be mass-produced in standard MEMS foundries, making spectroscopy more affordable for various new applications
NEWS
Rockley Photonics raises $40 million to expand production
19 March 2018
Rockley Photonics, a fabless supplier of silicon photonics chipsets, IP, and design for high volume optics applications, has raised $40 million in a recent funding round that will enable it to expand its design and production platform
NEWS
Light-powered silicon chip technology funded $11 million to enable next-generation AI
16 February 2018
MIT spin-off Lightmatter has received $11 million in series A funding to accelerate the development of an ultra-efficient silicon chip that processes using light, rather than electricity, to enable a faster and more efficient form of artificial intelligence
ANALYSIS & OPINION
Graphene-CMOS integration on show at Photonics West
6 February 2018
Greg Blackman reports from SPIE Photonics West, where the first image sensors based on graphene-CMOS integration were on display
NEWS
Silicon-based MEMS sensor brings new advantages to measuring electric field strength
1 February 2018
Researchers at TU Wien have developed a silicon-based sensor as a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) that is capable of measuring the strength of electric fields while being much smaller, simpler and less prone to distortion than comparable devices
PRESS RELEASE
Rockley Photonics appointments Mahesh Karanth as chief financial officer
1 February 2018
Silicon Photonics firm Rockley Photonics has announced the appointment of Mahesh Karanth as chief financial officer
NEWS
Silicon photonics to capture almost $4 billion of optical transceivers market by 2025
19 January 2018
Silicon photonics is on the verge of experiencing dramatic uptake in optical transceivers, market research firm Yole Développement has reported, with the technology set to capture 35 per cent of the total optical transceiver market by 2025