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Storing Light In Chips
Roland Piquepaille writes "Recently, researchers have "stopped light" by storing light pulses in hot or extremely cold gases (check these former stories on Slashdot or at BBC News Online). Now, scientists from Stanford University have devised a method to store light pulses under ordinary conditions. In Light-storing chip charted, Technology Research News says this opens the way for all-optical communications switches, quantum computers and quantum communications devices. The researchers plan to demonstrate this technique by trapping microwave signals within a year. They think that a prototype which works at optical frequencies could be made in two to five years. This overview contains more details and references."
imagine the applications now, a laser bazooka, bullets with lasers, etc.. Bush must be wetting his pants.. I'm just hoping the prototype they build is so incredibly massive/very heavy, yet hopefully efficient that for once it cant be used by the military, as everything else seems to be these days
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