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Silicon Photonics Link

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ7514972 ↗
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Silicon Photonics Link is a silicon-based optical data connection developed by Intel Corporation which uses silicon photonics and hybrid silicon laser, it provides 50 Gbit/s bandwidth. Intel expected the technology to be in products by 2015.

This technology is enabled and well supported by academic and industrial research work at Intel labs, 50 Gbit/s multi-color transmission line at Cornell University and Columbia University.

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This entry incorporates text from “Silicon Photonics Link” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.