{"id":86754,"date":"2019-01-17T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T04:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/on-chip-optical-link-is-created-on-electronic-chip-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2019-01-17T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T04:03:18","slug":"on-chip-optical-link-is-created-on-electronic-chip-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/on-chip-optical-link-is-created-on-electronic-chip-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"On-chip optical link is created on electronic chip for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-chip-optical-link-is-created-on-electronic-chip-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/\">https:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/<\/a>\u2026\/on-chip-optical-link-is-c\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-chip-optical-link-is-created-on-electronic-chip-for-the-first-time.jpg\" alt=\"An optocoupler that transmits data within an electronic chip is fabricated using standard CMOS techniques.\" id=\"cq-gen9271\" title=\"On-chip optical link is created on electronic chip for the first time\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a adhocenable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/integrated-photonics-laser-has-record-narrow-chip-based-linewidth-of-290-hz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Researchers of the University of Twente<\/a> (UT; Enschede, Netherlands) have, for the first time, succeeded in connecting two parts of an electronic chip using an on-chip optical link, all fabricable with standard CMOS technology \u2014 a long-sought-after goal, as intrachip connection via light is almost instantaneous and also provides electrical isolation. Such a connection can, for example, be a safe way of connecting high-power electronics and digital control circuitry on a single chip without a direct electrical link. Vishal Agarwal, a UT PhD student, created a very small optocoupler circuit that delivers a data rate of megabits per second in an energy-efficient way.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/articles\/2019\/01\/on-chip-optical-link-is-created-on-electronic-chip-for-the-first-time.html\">https:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/articles\/2019\/01\/on-chip-opt...-time.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/\u2026\/on-chip-optical-link-is-c\u2026 Researchers of the University of Twente (UT; Enschede, Netherlands) have, for the first time, succeeded in connecting two parts of an electronic chip using an on-chip optical link, all fabricable with standard CMOS technology \u2014 a long-sought-after goal, as intrachip connection via light is almost instantaneous and also provides electrical isolation. Such a connection [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86754","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}