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Optical Waveguides in Photonic Crystals

Posted by michael on from the wave-of-the-future dept.

KeelSpawn sent in a short article talking about creating the equivalent of etched silicon for light, using a method intended to be cheap enough for commercial applications.

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  1. Re:Trek by Psion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    HA! I remember an article in Byte magazine from ten or so years ago detailing a holographic terabyte storage medium on a piece of glass the size and shape of a microscope slide -- hows that for your isolinear chip? The article said such devices could be available for commercial use within one to three years.

    One must approach these kinds of announcements with a degree of skepticism. Sometimes they are little more than fishing expeditions intended to drum up a little shareholder interest. Sometimes, they are completely legitimate, but other market pressures prevent the technologies from coming out in anything close to the stated time frame.

    Not that I disagree in any way with your solid state goal! I'm with you 99.9997% on that one!