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，这一点可以从任何一条街道上无处不在的智能手机使用中看出。从我们与设计、建造和使用使这一切成为可能的系统的人们的互动中，我们创建了一个程序，使第一个使用单片集成在硅上的激光的数据互连、开关和传感器成为可能，通过从根本上改变数据在硅芯片上的感知、传输和处理方式，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第一个成功的直接集成在硅衬底上的电信波长激光器的演示之上。QUDOS计划将使所有必需的光学功能在硅上实现单片集成，并将对信息和通信技术产生类似于硅集成电子电路的发明对电子学产生的变革性影响。这将通过消除组装单个组件的需要来实现，从而以大大降低的成本实现大幅增加的规模和功能。

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.