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The joint team of UPV and iPRONICS has developed the first universal, programmable and multifunctional photonic chip on the market. Researchers from the Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL)-iTEAM of
The joint team of UPV and iPRONICS has developed the first universal, programmable and multifunctional photonic chip on the market. Researchers from the Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL)-iTEAM of the Polytechnic University of Valencia have developed an innovative photonic chip in collaboration with iPRONICS. This chip is the world’s first universal, programmable and multifunctional chip, a significant advance for the telecommunications industry, data centers and AI computing infrastructures. 5G communications is poised to advance a variety of applications, including quantum computing, data centers, artificial intelligence, satellites, drones and autonomous vehicles.
The development of this revolutionary chip is the main result of the European project UMWP-Chip, led by researcher José Capmani and funded by an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. The study was published in the journal Nature Communication.
Designed and manufactured by UPV and the iPRONICS team, the chip enables on-demand programming and the interconnection of wireless and photonic portions of communications networks, eliminating bottlenecks that can limit both throughput and available bandwidth.
“This is the first chip in the world with these features. It can implement the twelve basic functions required by these systems and can be programmed on demand, thus increasing the efficiency of the circuit,” explains Kapmani.
The UPV professor, an international reference in the field of photonics, explains that applications such as 5G or autonomous cars require higher frequencies, which makes it necessary to reduce the size of antennas and related circuits. In this case, UPV’s PRL-iTEAM has managed to make the converter behind the antenna, i.e. the interface chip, as small and compact as possible, ready to support current and future expected frequency bands.
This chip is already integrated into the iPRONICS product, Smartlight, and Vodafone has already used it in testing.
“For us, the development of this chip is a very important step because it allowed us to test our designs to solve the growing problem of efficiently managing data flows in data centers and networks for computing systems with artificial intelligence. Our next goal is to develop the chip to meet the needs of this market segment to scale in a way,” said iPronics co-founder and CTO Daniel Perez-Lopez.
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