Nanolasers grown on silicon-based MOSFETs Spotlight summary: A
laser source on the head of a silicon transistor? Don’t worry,
they both work… Data transport in the optical domain is believed
today to be the most promising technology, or more likely the
only viable one, to unchain the capacity of high speed data
links without crashing into unsustainable energy consumption.
Cooling is the main cause of power dissipation in data centers,
so that a further increase in the speed of data transmission is
hardly attainable without a dramatic energy-per-bit reduction.
Since copper wires are close to their transmission limit, in
this game electric connections are likely to be offside; as a
valuable alternative, photonics offers a unique opportunity to
become the forefront technology for high speed interconnects in
the near future. In order for communication between data
servers, modules, boards, or even processors to transfer into
the optical domain, the integration of photonic transmission
systems on conventional elec