Abstract: An optical phased array is provided, including: a silicon substrate; a silicon oxide layer; an optical waveguide layer including a coupling beam splitter and a grating antenna; a silicon oxide cladding layer, disposed around the optical waveguide layer and filled in the band-shaped gap; and one or more lithium niobate phase shifters; each lithium niobate phase shifter includes: a lithium niobate thin film located in the band-shaped gap, a lithium niobate optical waveguide disposed over the lithium niobate thin film and connected to the coupling beam splitter and the grating antenna, modulation electrodes. The present disclosure uses materials with high electro-optical coefficient and low loss, such as lithium niobate, to replace thermal modulation resistors and the phase modulation mode based on carrier injection used in optical phased arrays, so that the optical phase modulation with low power consumption, high speed and low waveguide loss can be performed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes: providing a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate including a first substrate, a first insulating layer on the first substrate, and a semiconductor layer on the first insulating layer; patterning the semiconductor layer to form a grating coupler; forming one or more functional layer stacked with each other on a side of the semiconductor layer that faces away from the first insulating layer; bonding the one or more functional layer to a carrier substrate on a side of the one or more functional layer that faces away from the semiconductor layer; and completely removing the first substrate to provide, by the first insulating layer instead of the first substrate, an optical transmission channel between the grating coupler and an outside of the semiconductor device that is located on a side, facing away from the semiconductor layer, of the first insulating layer.

Abstract: A digital signal modulation method for a photon artificial intelligence computing chip, including: modulating one or more groups of digital electrical signals into optical signals; where the group of digital electrical signals comprises several timing signals being outputted in sequence in a channel within a fixed period; where each timing signal has the same base clock and signal time length; where each timing signal conveying N-bit digital information has 2N?1 base clocks, the number of the base clocks of a high-level signal or the number of a digital signal “1” in the timing signal is a signal value of the timing signal, and the signal value is equal to a value of the N-bit digital information being transmitted; and where the timing signal is a modulating signal for converting the electrical signal to the optical signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the database field, and in particular, to a method for accessing a distributed database, including: receiving a first access request sent by an application server, where the first access request includes a table name of a first data table and a key value of the first data table; finding, according to the table name of the first data table, that the first data table is a replication table and a first access rule corresponding to the replication table, where the replication table is a same data table stored in multiple database servers; determining a database server that is corresponding to the key value and in the first access rule as a first database server that is preferentially accessed; and sending the first access request to the first database server. Therefore, distributed database access performance is greatly improved.