Year: 2022

ADVANCED FIBER OPTICS. "DARPA has succeeded in creating hollow-core photonic-bandgap optical fiber, which allows light to travel along its length at around 99.7% the speed of light, or a 30% improvement over conventional (silica glass) optic fibers." https://lnkd.in/eTNdXzT View in LinkedIn

DARPA's PHOTONIC CRYSTALS. "The secret to hollow-core fiber is doing away with the cladding and replacing it with photonic crystals. The light shoots down the hollow core, and when it strikes the edge, the photonic crystals bounce the photons." (2013). https://lnkd.in/eTNdXzT View in LinkedIn

COMPUTING SPEED. "Research into high-speed computing and AI has led to breakthroughs in software and hardware that mimic brain functions and signal protocols, effectively improving the efficiency of computers." https://lnkd.in/ehcfzCX View in LinkedIn

BRAIN SPEED. "However, current computers are still massively less efficient than the human brain, which takes only five seconds and a few calories to process what takes a computer 500 seconds and 1.4 milliwatts of power." https://lnkd.in/ehcfzCX View in LinkedIn

OPTICAL BRAIN. "Now instead of electrons, light and optical fibers also show promise in achieving a brain-like computer. The cognitive functionality of central neurons underlies the adaptable nature and information processing capability of our brains." https://lnkd.in/ehcfzCX View in LinkedIn

"PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF) is a new class of optical fiber based on the properties of photonic crystals. Because of its ability to confine light in hollow cores or with confinement characteristics not possible in conventional optical fiber, PCF is now finding applications in fiber-optic communications, fiber lasers, nonlinear devices, high-power transmission, highly sensitive gas sensors, and other areas." https://lnkd.in/emkMqJc View in LinkedIn

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS. "BAE Systems, Lucent Technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Applied Wave Research are participating in a high payoff research and development program for the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) of DARPA." https://lnkd.in/eAzxwaq View in LinkedIn

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS. "The goal of the program is the development of technologies and design tools necessary to fabricate an application-specific, electronic-photonic integrated circuit." (2015). https://lnkd.in/eAzxwaq View in LinkedIn

"BRIDGING THE GAP between optical fibers and silicon photonic integrated circuits. The optical interconnection technology has been proved to be the best candidate to replace the electrical copper links at high data rates owing to the larger bandwidth, lower energy consumption and immunity to electromagnetic interference." https://lnkd.in/e-Kpyqa View in LinkedIn

A PHOTONIC CHIP uses light instead of electricity and is being developed for the "production of ultra-fast quantum computers with capabilities far beyond today’s devices." https://lnkd.in/ey3BzbX View in LinkedIn