Photonics in Computing, Communications and Information Processing
Photonics offers massive parallelism, extremely broad bandwidth and low-loss transmission far beyond traditional counterparts constrained by electronic impedances. Hence, all-optical or hybrid photonic-electronic technologies can enable innovative computing, communication and information processing systems with unprecedented performance and energy-efficiency. Silicon-photonic technologies, optically-interconnected computer systems, photonic neuromorphic computing, coherent optical communications, Fourier-optical-devices and photonic signal processors are just a few examples of the myriad of projects in this area that UC Davis researchers are engaged in.
