Well, it’s time for a shameless plug. I’m going to be talking this year at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, CA. I’ll be presenting the paper for my day-job company (Luxtera) in session 13.7, “A 10Gb/s Photonic Modulator and WDM MUX/DEMUX Integrated with Electronics in 0.13µm SOI CMOS”. The talk should be pretty exciting–we will be showing some really remarkable results. I can’t talk about it here due to the rules of the conference, but maybe after I’ve given the talk I can expound on things a bit. If you’re going to be at the conference, give me a holler!
Here’s the abstract of the talk:
Monolithic integration of both photonic and electronic components operating at 10Gb/s in a 0.13µm SOI CMOS process for PowerPC processors is presented. A modulator uses free carrier plasma dispersion in a reverse-biased PIN optical phase shifter in a Mach-Zender interferometer. An AWG demultiplexer uses a forward-biased PIN phase shifter to compensate the optical path length improving the channel separation.
Basically, Luxtera is the first company to realize a fully integrated silicon-photonic system. This kind of integration brings the benefits of silicon economy to photonics, which means that fiberoptics will become cheap enough to be a standard feature in desktops in the not too distant future. < /shameless plug>
Hi Bunnie, apologyze if this reply doesnt belong to the topic, I wondered if you could help me to hack a xbox controller signals, I need to make an interface between the xbox and other controller’s type, I need to know like the control is initialized? please contactme to explain to you detailedly. Thank You.
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Carlos, there are LOADS of info like this around the net. Google is your best friend. Remember the XBOX controller is a USB controller AND a USB hub on itself, just using a different connector. Look at google and I’m sure you’ll going to find something useful!
Greetings from Brazil
Alexandre Souza, from Tabajara Labs
In a way that just shows how low the ISSCC did sink over the years.
People who don’t develop electronics present stuff that is not their original idea and publish it with lots of fake promises…
Same old story at Luxtera, but a new low for the ISSCC.
But it’s nice they at least let you present this and get a “published at ISSCC” item for your CV !
I don’t develop electronics? Last I checked, that’s what I’ve been doing for the past few years. An interesting point of view, but I have to disagree; the circuits I present in the paper I designed and laid out myself by hand, and my optics collaborators are as real as I am. While it is true that we all base our work upon the fine results of others, that is why we have citations and acknowledgements, and that is why we have peer review to keep us honest and original. Come to the talk and see if you maintain the same opinion…
Jeeze that’s pretty harsh Lightearth, and doesn’t speak of your intelligence since you chose to be so critical before you’ve even see the presentation.
Bunnie, it will be interesting to see what comes of this. I’m not involved in the electronics field beyond being a PC techie and amature eletronics engineer (heh hacker would be more apt) but I’ve been hearing about the move to integrate fiber optics into common computer devices for some years and this seems like an exciting progression. I know everyone is begging you to get back into the Xbox but your current work sounds much more stimulating =). Good luck at ISSCC.
Hey Bunnie,
Saw your talk…extremely impressive work. I was wondering if you are actually actively pursuing a fiber optic gyro. I am a prof at Cornell and would love to collaborate on a fiber optic gyro in your process.
Aparently, your co-author Gunn, is a good friend of my colleague here Michal Lipson.
Sunil.
Hey Bunnie,
Your work sounds amazingly cool! Hopefully I can find a copy of your paper to read.
Sunil — the fiber optic gyro is actually an old project of ours, not currently being pursued. I still think it’s an interesting project, but focus is fairly important for a small startup like ours… :-P
Hello to Z! =)
Cool article!