Microsoft Optics for the Cloud

Truly innovative and disruptive research advancements are required to maintain pace with the explosive growth of IoT and Cloud technologies. To address this challenge, Microsoft Research has created a multi-university international research alliance with several top optics and networking groups, including: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), University College London (UCL), University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), University of Cambridge, and the University of Southampton, with discussions underway with several other universities.

The Optical Communications and Photonic Integration (OCPI) Group under Professor Daniel J. Blumenthal, UCSB, is excited to be a part of this effort to develop state-of-art optical communications technologies for advancements in IoT and Cloud systems of tomorrow.

More information on this exciting cooperative effort can be found here.