Thus, thousands of these devices can be built side-by-side with silicon transistors for high-bandwidth on-chip optical communications.

所以，数以千计的这类设备能够通过使用为芯片上光学通信的高带宽而设计的硅晶体管（silicon transistors）并行地进行生产。

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The hardware includes optical receiving equipment, signal amplification equipment, information processing equipment, communications equipment and LCD devices and so on.

其中硬件包括光电接收设备、信号放大设备、信息处理设备、通信设备和液晶显示设备等等。

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PCF is a special application of two-dimensional Photonic Crystals. It is of great significant not only in optical communications, but also for many optical devices.

光子晶体光纤是二维光子晶体的一种特殊应用，不仅对光通信有重要意义，对很多光器件的研究也意义重大。

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Companies now are racing to make the components faster and drive the cost much lower, so that optical connections can also accelerate communications inside and among PCs and consumer-electronics devices.

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