{"id":186539,"date":"2024-04-01T06:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/photonics-breakthrough-tiny-chip-generates-high-quality-microwave-signals"},"modified":"2024-04-01T06:24:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:24:37","slug":"photonics-breakthrough-tiny-chip-generates-high-quality-microwave-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/photonics-breakthrough-tiny-chip-generates-high-quality-microwave-signals","title":{"rendered":"Photonics Breakthrough: Tiny Chip Generates High-Quality Microwave Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photonics-breakthrough-tiny-chip-generates-high-quality-microwave-signals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers create a compact, all-optical device with the lowest microwave noise ever achieved for an integrated chip.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a new <i>Nature<\/i> study, Columbia Engineering researchers have built a photonic chip that can produce high-quality, ultra-low-noise microwave signals using only a single laser. The compact device \u2014 a chip so small, it could fit on a sharp pencil point \u2014 results in the lowest microwave noise ever observed in an integrated photonics platform. The achievement provides a promising pathway towards small-footprint ultra-low-noise microwave generation for applications such as high-speed communication, atomic clocks, and autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers create a compact, all-optical device with the lowest microwave noise ever achieved for an integrated chip. In a new Nature study, Columbia Engineering researchers have built a photonic chip that can produce high-quality, ultra-low-noise microwave signals using only a single laser. The compact device \u2014 a chip so small, it could fit on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186539","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}