Silicon Photonics Link

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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.{{cite news|last=Shah|first=Agam|title=Intel Eyes Post-Thunderbolt Interconnect for 2015|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/226504/intel_eyes_postthunderbolt_interconnect_for_2015.html|accessdate=28 April 2011|newspaper=PC World|date=27 April 2011}}

This technology is enabled and well supported by academic and industrial research work at Intel labs,{{Cite journal|last=Paniccia|first=Mario|last2=Nicolaescu|first2=Remus|last3=Cohen|first3=Oded|last4=Doron Rubin|last5=Samara-Rubio|first5=Dean|last6=Liao|first6=Ling|last7=Jones|first7=Richard|last8=Liu|first8=Ansheng|date=February 2004|title=A high-speed silicon optical modulator based on a metal–oxide–semiconductor capacitor|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=427|issue=6975|pages=615–618|doi=10.1038/nature02310|pmid=14961115|issn=1476-4687}} 50 Gbit/s multi-color transmission line at Cornell University{{Cite journal|last=Lipson|first=Michal|last2=Chen|first2=Long|last3=Manipatruni|first3=Sasikanth|date=2010-08-02|title=Ultra high bandwidth WDM using silicon microring modulators|journal=Optics Express|language=EN|volume=18|issue=16|pages=16858–16867|doi=10.1364/OE.18.016858|pmid=20721078|issn=1094-4087|bibcode=2010OExpr..1816858M|doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/34/|title=Michal Lipson|last=|first=|date=|website=www.macfound.org|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-14}} and Columbia University.{{Cite journal|last=Bergman|first=Keren|last2=Lipson|first2=Michal|last3=Chen|first3=Long|last4=Ophir|first4=Noam|last5=Manipatruni|first5=Sasikanth|last6=Biberman|first6=Aleksandr|date=2010-07-19|title=First demonstration of long-haul transmission using silicon microring modulators|journal=Optics Express|language=EN|volume=18|issue=15|pages=15544–15552|doi=10.1364/OE.18.015544|pmid=20720934|issn=1094-4087|bibcode=2010OExpr..1815544B|doi-access=free}}