Ability of silicon chips to tackle Big data

To transmit information for future computing there is a major advantage in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals. The integration of electrical circuits with different optical components side-by-side on a single silicon chip using, for the first time, sub-100nm semiconductor technology is allowed by SILICON NANOPHOTONICS which is also known as the breakthrough technology.

Silicon Nanophotonics provides a super highway for large volumes of data to move at rapid speeds and it uses pulses of light for communication and “This allows us to move silicon nanophotonics technology into a real-world manufacturing environment that will have impact across a range of applications and alleviating the limitations of congested data traffic and high-cost traditional interconnects. Due to an explosion of new applications and services the amount of data being created and transmitted over enterprise networks continues to grow. Silicon Nanophotonics can enable the industry to keep pace with increasing demands

Silicon seamlessly connects various parts of large systems due to which nanophotonics technology can provide answers to Big Data challenges whether few centimeters or few kilometers apart from each other, and move terabytes of data via pulses of light through optical fibres. A new era of computing that requires systems to process and analyze, in real-time, huge volumes of information known as Big Data. A variety of silicon nanophotonics components such as wavelength division multiplexers (WDM), modulators, and detectors are integrated side-by-side with a CMOS electrical circuitry by adding a few processing modules into a high-performance 90nm CMOS fabrication line.IBM's CMOS nanophotonics innovation shows handsets to surpass the information rate of 25Gbps for every channel. What's more, the innovation is fit for bolstering various parallel optical information streams into a solitary fiber by using minimized on-chip wavelength-division multiplexing gadgets. The capacity to multiplex huge information streams at high information rates will permit future scaling of optical interchanges fit for conveying terabytes of information between far off parts of PC frameworks.