{"id":232440,"date":"2026-03-03T01:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/3d-printed-plug-links-fiber-optics-to-photonic-chips-with-low-loss"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:26:08","slug":"3d-printed-plug-links-fiber-optics-to-photonic-chips-with-low-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/3d-printed-plug-links-fiber-optics-to-photonic-chips-with-low-loss","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed \u2018plug\u2019 links fiber optics to photonic chips with low loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-plug-links-fiber-optics-to-photonic-chips-with-low-loss.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as electronic components via a \u201cplug.\u201d Their development could serve as the basis for fast and cost-effective production of photonic integrated systems that are of great importance for implementing innovative computing and communications systems.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Dr. Wolfram Pernice of the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics headed up the research on this novel coupling concept for light-controlled chips. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz1883\" target=\"_blank\">The results<\/a> appear in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as electronic components via a \u201cplug.\u201d Their development could serve as the basis for fast and cost-effective production of photonic integrated systems that are of great importance for implementing innovative computing and communications systems. Prof. Dr. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232440","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=232440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}