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Transferring Data with Many Colors of Light Simultaneously

Photonic transmitter chip mounted on a printed circuit board with electrical and fiber optic connections
Photonic transmitter chip mounted on a printed circuit board with electrical and fiber optic connections. Credit: Lightwave Research Laboratory/Columbia Engineering

The new photonic chip enables exponentially faster and more energy-efficient artificial intelligence. Scientists have developed a fast and extremely efficient method for transferring huge amounts of data. The technique uses dozens of frequencies of light to transfer several streams of information over a fiber optic cable simultaneously.

The data centers and high-performance computers that run artificial intelligence programs, such as large language models, aren’t limited by the sheer computational power of their individual nodes...

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