Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in optical communications. The current generation has led to a proliferation of integrated photonic devices from t.
The energy efficiency and consumption of mobile networks have received increasing attention from academics and industry in recent years. This has been provoked by rapid increases in mobile data traffi.
RealIZM has met Bogdan Sirbu, a researcher at Fraunhofer IZM, to speak about the need for and challenges of co-packaged optics, the technology's readiness, and future developments in datacentres and bey.