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Nature Photonics 2, 389 - 390 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.111

Silicon photonics: Lighting up the chip

Attila Mekis1

  1. Attila Mekis is at Luxtera, 2320 Camino Vida Roble, Carlsbad, California 92011, USA.
    e-mail: amekis@luxtera.com


A tiny GeSi electro-absorption modulator with energy consumption at the femtojoule-per-bit level represents a step towards bringing photonics ever closer to computer chips.

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