An all-optical integrator, or lightwave capacitor, is a fundamental building
block equivalent to those used in multi-functional electronic circuits.
Associate Professor David Moss, a senior researcher within the Institute for
Photonic and Optical Science (IPOS), leads an international team which has developed
the optical integrator on a CMOS compatible silicon chip.
The device, a photonic chip compatible with electronic technology (CMOS), will
be a key enabler of next generation fully-integrated ultrafast optical data
processing technologies for many applications including ultra-fast optical information-processing,
optical memory, measurement, computing systems, and real-time differential equation
computing units.
