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Photonics Integrated with CMOS Under HELIOS Project

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GRENOBLE, France, May 15, 2013 — Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture silicon photonic devices, now that HELIOS, a four-year project to integrate photonics with electronics, has ended successfully, CEA-Leti announced Tuesday. Silicon photonics is seen as key to developing future optical interconnects in microelectronic circuits, as engineers reach the technical limits of current integrated circuit technology. It is also essential to developing optical telecommunications, especially because of the cost advantages of integrating photonic and electronic functions on the same chip. CMOS photonics may...Read full article

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