{"id":120552,"date":"2021-03-14T07:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/hyperlight-demonstrates-an-integrated-optical-engine-capable-of-pushing-data-at-terabits-per-second-with-reduced-power-consumption"},"modified":"2021-03-14T07:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:22:57","slug":"hyperlight-demonstrates-an-integrated-optical-engine-capable-of-pushing-data-at-terabits-per-second-with-reduced-power-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/hyperlight-demonstrates-an-integrated-optical-engine-capable-of-pushing-data-at-terabits-per-second-with-reduced-power-consumption","title":{"rendered":"HyperLight Demonstrates an Integrated Optical Engine Capable of Pushing Data at Terabits per Second with Reduced Power Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hyperlight-demonstrates-an-integrated-optical-engine-capable-of-pushing-data-at-terabits-per-second-with-reduced-power-consumption3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass.\u2014(<a referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\" rel=\"nofollow\" itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)\u2014Engineers from <a referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhyperlightcorp.com&esheet=52395032&newsitemid=20210312005053&lan=en-US&anchor=HyperLight&index=1&md5=1c2ad6903870120f17c875e4695887e6\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">HyperLight<\/a>, a leader in the commercialization of thin-film lithium niobate (LN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), have achieved breakthrough voltage-bandwidth performances in integrated electro-optic modulators. The broadband electro-optic PIC could lead to orders of magnitude energy consumption reduction for next generation optical networking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe believe the significantly improved electro-optic modulation performance in our integrated LN platform will lead to a paradigm shift for both analog and digital ultra-high speed RF links\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20210312005053\/en\/HyperLight-Demonstrates-an-Integrated-Optical-Engine-Capable-of-Pushing-Data-at-Terabits-per-Second-with-Reduced-Power-Consumption\" id=\"tweet-pull-quote\">Tweet this<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Energy consumption in optical networking for ethernet, data centers and 5G is soaring as a result of the rapidly growing data traffic. This is because of the limited performance of existing electro-optic modulators, the key element in converting data from the electrical to optical domain at high speed for optical networks. Current electro-optic modulators require extremely high radio-frequency (RF) driving voltages (5 V) as the analog bandwidth in ethernet ports approaches 100 GHz for future terabits per sec capacity transceivers. In comparison, a typical CMOS RF modulator driver delivers less than 0.5 V at such frequencies. Compound semiconductor modulator drivers can deliver voltage 1 V at significantly increased cost and energy consumption but still fall short to meet the optimum driving voltage. The limited voltage-bandwidth performance in electro-optic modulators poses a serious challenge for meeting tight power consumption requirements from network builders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass.\u2014(BUSINESS WIRE)\u2014Engineers from HyperLight, a leader in the commercialization of thin-film lithium niobate (LN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), have achieved breakthrough voltage-bandwidth performances in integrated electro-optic modulators. The broadband electro-optic PIC could lead to orders of magnitude energy consumption reduction for next generation optical networking. \u201cWe believe the significantly improved electro-optic modulation performance in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}