Photonics Technologies for Medical Applications

Intel ® Technology Journal Optical Technologies and Applications Silicon Photonics Silicon Photonics

We introduce our approach to opto-electronic integration, silicon photonics, and outline the key functions required for an opto-electronic integration platform: generation, control, and detection of light. Recent research results for silicon-based optical components are discussed including a tunable external cavity laser, a 2.5 GHz optical modulator and a silicon-germanium waveguide-based photo...

Silicon Photonics Platform for Government Applications

We review Sandia’s silicon photonics platform for government applications. Silicon photonics offers the potential for extensive size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-c) reductions compared to existing III-V or purely electronics circuits. The Sandia fabrication facility is certified as a trusted foundry and can therefore produce devices and circuits intended for military applications. We will des...

Terahertz wireless communications based on photonics technologies.

There has been an increasing interest in the application of terahertz (THz) waves to broadband wireless communications. In particular, use of frequencies above 275 GHz is one of the strong concerns among radio scientists and engineers, because these frequency bands have not yet been allocated at specific active services, and there is a possibility to employ extremely large bandwidths for ultra-...

Performance analysis of low rate wireless technologies for medical applications

In this article we discuss what wireless technologies can be used for medical applications and how well they perform in a healthcare/hospital environment. We consider the emerging low-rate Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) technology as specified in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.4 standard and evaluate its suitability to the medical environment. We focu...

Technologies for the Use of Protein Kinases into Medical Applications