QUantum Dot On Silicon systems for communications, information processing and sensing (QUDOS)

信息的感知、处理和传输是现代生活的核心，这一点可以从智能手机在任何街道上的普及中看出。通过我们与设计、建造和使用这些系统的人的互动，我们创建了一个项目，使第一批使用激光器的数据互连、开关和传感器成为可能，这些激光器单片集成在硅上，通过从根本上改变数据在硅芯片上感知、传输和处理的方式，提供了改变信息和通信技术（ICT）的潜力。这项工作建立在我们首次成功的电信波长激光器直接集成在硅衬底上的演示之上。QUDOS计划将使所有必要的光学功能在硅上单片集成，并将对ICT产生类似于硅集成电子电路对电子产品产生的变革性影响。这将通过消除组装单个组件的需要来实现，从而以大幅降低的成本大幅增加规模和功能。

The sensing, processing and transport of information is at the heart of modern life, as can be seen from the ubiquity of smart-phone usage on any street. From our interactions with the people who design, build and use the systems that make this possible, we have created a programme to make possible the first data interconnects, switches and sensors that use lasers monolithically integrated on silicon, offering the potential to transform Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by changing fundamentally the way in which data is sensed, transferred between and processed on silicon chips. The work builds on our demonstration of the first successful telecommunications wavelength lasers directly integrated on silicon substrates. The QUDOS Programme will enable the monolithic integration of all required optical functions on silicon and will have a similar transformative effect on ICT to that which the creation of silicon integrated electronic circuits had on electronics. This will come about through removing the need to assemble individual components, enabling vastly increased scale and functionality at greatly reduced cost.