Chromosol Limited

Company description

Chromosol develops optical amplifiers for semiconductors, which are designed to transmit data points by light pulses, as opposed to electrical currents.

Silicon Photonics is the future of high speed data networks. Although virtually all long distance data transfer is sent at the speed of light down optical fibres, the technology required to do this is too expensive for many shorter distance links. As such datacentres, which currently consume about 3% of the world's electricity generation and are responsible for around 2% of all greenhouse gas emissions, are forced to rely on electrical connections for much short range data transfer, an energy intensive process which also provides a bottleneck in the data transfer rate.

Project impact

Chromosol has developed a new range of laser materials derived from novel chemistry which can be deposited directly onto photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in order to allow the integration of lasers and provide distributed gain to allow low power, low cost and higher speed data connections.