The invention of IBM wafer light made optical communication computer

November 4th news, according to foreign media reports, IBM researchers have developed a lower light through the technology of silicon wafer, the technology is expected to be high compression embedded computer circuit system for optical fiber communication line. Under the special conditions of the laboratory, the technology to control the light has long been known to researchers, but it is the first time to use silicon and nano electronic technology to achieve this function. IBM announced the latest invention on Thursday. IBM said that the technology will greatly ease the computer and other electronic devices in the data transmission bottlenecks encountered.

Researchers said, based on the size of the chip circuit board of light transmission is used in the manufacture of computer components may be some nanoscale in future, such as optical transmission line and optical buffer and optical memory, all of these components can be combined to form a powerful optical communication network by connecting the computer system.

IBM scientists through a device consisting of a silicon wafer, the speed of light can be reduced to 600 miles per second, and usually the speed of light is 300 thousand kilometers per second.

Part of the funds IBM project provided by the defense advanced research projects agency. The invention has been published in the latest issue of the Journal science.