'Optics on a Chip' Melds Photonic Circuitry, Silicon
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 7, 2007 -- Using microphotonics, researchers have split the light from an optic fiber in an integrated, on-chip way, controlled the random polarization of the two beams and then reconnected them. The breakthrough in "optics on a chip" technology could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications.MIT graduate student Peter Rakich, who worked on developing optics that can fit atop a microchip. (Photo: Donna Coveney, MIT) The Massachusetts Institute of...