The US Giant, Intel Corporation, through Intel Labs, has created the first optical connection of data transmission based on silicium that uses Hybrid Silicon Laser hybrids and can transfer data with a speed of 50 billion bites per second, which actually allows us to copy a HD movie in just a second. This was an announcement made last week by Intel.
According to the company, the development of the prototype of the first optical connection based on silicium implies using photons for data transmissions inside the computers and in the external environment, this replacing the electrons that were used until now.
The experimental chip can transfer data at a speed of 50gbps, and compared to current technology based on copper, this new connection can transfer data on longer distances and can do it faster.
Currently, connections between the components of a computer are made with the help of some copper cables. When metal like copper are using for data transfer the degrading of the signal is inevitable, which leads to the need of limiting the length of the cables, being required that processors, memory and other components to be placed within only a few cm’s from each other.
The new Intel technology will be able to be used in a variety of areas and because of the high transfer speed a user will be able to use a 3D display the size of a wall for multimedia activities but also for creating video conferences.
The Silicon Photonics Link of 50 gbps is the result of a research program which spreads on many years in photons, which includes many world wide premieres.
This is formed through a silicium transmitter and a receiver-chip, each integrating all the required components, created previously by Intel, like the first Hybrid laser based on silicium developed along with the University of California from Santa Barbara ( in 2006 ) and optical modulators of high speed and photodetectors, technologies that were made public even since 2007.
