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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."

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  1. FINALLY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. fuck all this bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what a waste of my time

  3. Re:military must be getting horny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope the military makes one and blows away your dumb liberal ass.

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    1. Re:I rape linux penguins! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  10. OK by seelet · · Score: -1, Troll

    i read threw the /. articles and realize that the moderators have a real homofag sense of humor. People make some L4M3455(thats h4x0r sp3lling) comments that are supposed to be funny, instead they are like the zits on my ass annoying. So Cock Taco or wutever yer name is FuckYou and yer mods. . . . . television is the governments way of brain washing you, so fuck them too....

  11. Re:hmmm? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it isn't off topic, this is a prediction...a woman will be the one to make the greatest advances when it comes to our further understanding of light.

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