Towards silicon-photonics based THz links?
Résumé
With the surge in mega-data communications, wireless networks are entering a revolution which has now taken off with 5G. From a user perspective, the main challenge is providing fast and agile connections in all usage scenarios. Considering the data-rates expected to be delivered to users (some urban areas with 1000 users per cell) the overall data collected by future base-stations will rapidly reach the Terabit/s range, translating to peak data-rates per user of around 1 Gbit/s. In this context point-to-point ultra-fast links with ultra-low latency must be enabled.