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Silicon photonics merges two technologies-integrated circuits and optical communications, which have evolved along parallel but separate paths.

Each offers distinct advantages. Silicon-based IC fabrication now integrates literally billions of transistors onto a single substrate. Laser-based optical communications produce very high bandwidths and low-loss signal transmission over long distances.

When combined via Silicon photonics (SiPh), they offer new possibilities in transmission speed, scalability, energy efficiency and cost reduction.  Over time, Silicon photonics (SiPh), will scale down from data center applications to interconnects on individual chips. Eventually, hundreds of cores on a single IC could be interconnected through an on-chip optical mesh.