Photonics Fundamentals For Electronics Engineers: eBook

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AI has created a crisis in the data center. The amount of data that needs to be processed and stored has pushed compute and memory density far beyond what anyone thought possible even a few years ago.

But how to move that data back and forth quickly and efficiently between processors and memory remains a work in progress. While the chip industry was built around the ability to move electrons through wires, there has long been a recognition that at some point photons would become the better choice for moving data at, well, the speed of light.