Researchers realizing challenging goal of integrating lasers on silicon photonics

The global digital infrastructure is approaching a critical inflection point. Explosive growth in artificial intelligence, hyperscale cloud computing, 5G/6G networks, and data-intensive applications is pushing conventional electronic architectures toward their physical and economic limits. While silicon-based CMOS scaling has sustained decades of performance gains, the bottleneck has decisively shifted from computation to communication—specifically, the inability…