Title:
A completely new plasmonic chip for ultrafast data transmission using light
Author:
Florian Meyer
Published:
Tech Xplore, 3 July 2020
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-07-plasmonic-chip-ultrafast-transmission.html
From the article:
Researchers from ETH Zurich have achieved what scientists have been attempting to do for some 20 years: in their laboratory work as part of European Horizon 2020 research projects, they have manufactured a chip on which fast electronic signals can be converted directly into ultrafast light signals—with practically no loss of signal quality. This represents a significant breakthrough in terms of the efficiency of optical communication infrastructures that use light to transmit data, such as fiber optic networks.