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Melbourne-based research has led to the creation of a self-calibrated photonic chip.

Australian semiconductor developer BluGlass has appointed James (Jim) Haden as its president.

A "world-first optical fibre as fine as a human hair" has been developed by scientists from the Macquarie University Photonics Research Centre, promising transmission of over 1 petabit of data per second.

An Ericsson-backed research project dubbed IRIS has produced a breakthrough silicon photonics switch designed for housing thousands of optical circuits on a single chip.

Innovation minister, senator Kim Carr, has officially kicked of a six year $23.8m research program into photonic chip technology at the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems. (CUDOS) that has the potential to revolutionise optical communications.

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface, which could lead to a new class of faster, more efficient microprocessors, as well as to powerful biochemical sensors that use optoelectronic chips.

IBM has unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, claiming that it will enable a 10X improvement in integration density over current manufacturing techniques and the creation of 1Tbps electro-optical transducers just a few millimetres square.

A seemingly impossible sparkle of green light from a silicon chip has opened up a whole new field of possibilities for communications devices, including exponentially shrinking the hardware needed to guarantee high quality Internet connection, according to researchers at the University of Sydney.