{"id":220930,"date":"2025-08-25T16:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/digital-to-analog-in-one-smooth-step-device-could-replace-signal-modulators-in-fiber-optic-networks"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:05:22","slug":"digital-to-analog-in-one-smooth-step-device-could-replace-signal-modulators-in-fiber-optic-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/digital-to-analog-in-one-smooth-step-device-could-replace-signal-modulators-in-fiber-optic-networks","title":{"rendered":"Digital to analog in one smooth step: Device could replace signal modulators in fiber-optic networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/digital-to-analog-in-one-smooth-step-device-could-replace-signal-modulators-in-fiber-optic-networks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a major roadblock in next-generation photonic computing and signal processing systems, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a device that can bridge digital electronic signals and analog light signals in one fluid step.<\/p>\n<p>Built on chips made out of lithium niobate, the workhorse material of optoelectronics, the new device offers a potential replacement for the ubiquitous but energy-intensive digital-to-analog conversion and electro-optic modulation systems used all over today\u2019s high-speed data networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOptical communication and high-performance computing, including large language models, relies on conversion of massive amounts of data between the electrical domain\u2014used for storage and computation\u2014and the optical domain used for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/data+transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data transfer<\/a>,\u201d said senior author Marko Lon\u010dar, the Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering at SEAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing a major roadblock in next-generation photonic computing and signal processing systems, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a device that can bridge digital electronic signals and analog light signals in one fluid step. Built on chips made out of lithium niobate, the workhorse material [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220930","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}