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      Author(s)
      Alu, A.
      Demir, Hilmi Volkan
      Jagadish, c
      Date
      2020
      Source Title
      Proceedings of the IEEE
      Print ISSN
      0018-9219
      Publisher
      IEEE
      Volume
      108
      Issue
      5
      Pages
      625 - 627
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Being able to manipulate and control light flows at small scales holds the promise to open groundbreaking opportunities for a variety of technologies. Consider, for instance, the challenges currently faced in the world of computing: as data rates and processing demands increase worldwide at an exponential rate, we are facing unsustainable increases in energy consumption associated with data centers and streaming providers. To address these challenges, optical computing and communications offer an interesting alternative to electronic-based systems. Using light for these purposes, however, is hindered by the fact that photons are not easily squeezed to volumes beyond the diffraction limit, i.e., below the wavelength scale, which would be required both to enable lowenergy computation at sufficiently high speeds and to match the degree of integration density available in electronic systems. Today, the field of optoelectronics, which combines highdensity electronic devices to process the data and low-energy data transport enabled by light, is growing at a very fast pace.
      Keywords
      Nanophotonics
      Energy consumption
      Optical computing
      Photonics
      Optoelectronic devices
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/75990
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2020.2986176
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      • Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 4011
      • Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology (UNAM) 2258
      • Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM) 1179
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