IBM Reaches 1 Trillion Tbit/s Mark

Smog over Los Angeles
The "Holey Optochip" is being presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles today.

IBM is presenting the prototype of an optical chipset that can transfer 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) of information per second (Tbit/s) at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles today.

The "Holey Optochip" is so named for its ability to fabricate 48 optical vias for its 24 receiver and 24 transmitter circuits.

"Reaching the 1 Tbit/s mark with the Holey Optochip marks IBM's latest milestone to develop chip-scale transceivers that can handle the volume of traffic in the era of Big Data," says researcher Clint Schow. "We have been actively pursuing higher levels of integration, power efficiency and performance for all the optical components through packaging and circuit innovations. We aim to improve on the technology for commercialization in the next decade with the collaboration of manufacturing partners."

 

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