Photonic integration: Bent on disruption

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“This is a general rule: what starts as a series of parts loosely strung together, if used heavily enough, congeals into a self-contained unit.”   

W. Brian Arthur, The Nature of Technology

Infinera's Dave Welch: PICs are fibre-optic's current disruption

Dave Welch likes to draw a parallel with digital photography when discussing the use of photonic integration for optical networking. “The CMOS photodiode array – a photonic integrated circuit - changed the entire supply chain of photography,” says Welch, the chief strategy officer at Infinera.

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