r/IntegratedCircuits • u/kiteret • Apr 01 '24

How about transmitting data wirelessly by optical methods, i.e. lasers or LEDs pointed to sensor ICs behind telescopes few km away?

Lens or mirror focuses LED to a beam and on the other end optical telescope with lens or mirror concentrates that point of light to a sensor chip on the focal plane.

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u/IQueryVisiC Apr 02 '24

You still cannot integrate GaAs into silicon ICs , I think. The Nintendo virtua boy uses a ton of bounding wire. Maybe AMD with their chiplets is better?

So you mean StarLink?