This project pioneers the integrated multi-wavelength optical engine technology, generating a multiple uniformly-spaced wavelengths through a single light source, with an ultra-narrow line-width, providing solutions from key light source components to optical I/O based on the brand-new integrated multi-wavelength light source, to supply a more efficient optical interconnection architecture for the future data-intensive and compute-intensive applications.
(1) High-performance integrated light source devices and modules
Integrated chip-based light sources are widely used in communications, sensing, quantum information, precision measurement, and related fields.
(2) An integrated multi-wavelength optical interconnection engine
Optical interconnect technology fundamentally overcomes the bandwidth bottleneck of short-reach copper-cable interconnections in today’s data centers, providing the underlying technological foundation for future AI computing power.
(1) Breakthrough in wafer-level ultra-low-loss silicon nitride processing technology
Achieved the silicon nitride microcavity structure with the world’s highest Q-value (up to 260 million) as well as the world’s lowest line-width integrated laser equipment (less than 10Hz) thus implementing its localization.
(2) A high-speed optical interconnection based on the integrated multi-wavelength light sources
By combining multi-channel, integrated light source with silicon optical external modulation chips a high-speed optical engine was realized, while the number of channels reached was 34, achieving the world’s highest optical interconnection transmission speed of up to 60 Tb/s.