Production of Photon Processors Expected in 2006

ThinSkin writes "Photon processors that transmit data via light, not electrons, are slated to enter production in mid-2006, ExtremeTech reports. Headed by a UCLA professor and a Nobel Prize winner, startup Luxtera claims that its optical modulator clocks in at 10-GHz, tens times that of Intel's optical modulator researchers talked about last year. Since the optical module exists as its own entity, it will require a standard CMOS processes to integrate the optical waveguides. Luxtera has worked closely with Freescale Semiconductor to develop this technology."

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Re:Just a modulator

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Laaserboy wrote:
> I may not have a Nobel Prize, but I do have a Ph.D. in physics. Electrons do not tranform
> into photons. They may produce photons, but not turn into them.

But a collision of an electron and an antielectron produces two photons.