According to media reports, on July 9, Zhangjiang Lab took the lead in the silicon photonics city-level major project to make breakthroughs in process technology, with the ability to film the film. It is expected that this year, China's first silicon photonics research and development test line It will be built in Shanghai. This special project will build a whole industrial chain of silicon photonic chips in Shanghai, master key technology, and let domestic enterprises get rid of dependence on foreign optical chip suppliers.
In addition to communication, optical chips can also be used in laser radar, parallel computing, large-scale optical switches, three-dimensional optoelectronic integration and other frontier projects with great development potential, becoming the core components of autonomous driving, next-generation computers, ultra-high-definition television and other fields.
The breakthrough of the Shanghai Silicon Photonics Project will be beneficial to domestic enterprises to seize the high-end market of communication devices. It is also of great significance for the independent control of communication products. Combined with the investment of hundreds of billions of communication networks in the next few years, the market prospect is broad.