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New Nanophotonic Waveguides developed at MIT
SimilarityEngine writes "Physicists at MIT have developed a new kind of nanophotonic waveguide, overcoming 'several long-standing obstacles'
to move us one step closer to optical computers.
Photonics strives to improve on electronics in terms of
space requirements, speed and energy consumption - but until recently,
it was not possible to perform well in all three areas simultaneously. In their paper, John Joannopoulos et al. demonstrate how to reliably encode a signal as surface plasmons which
side-steps such limitations."
This is a first.
A story that absolutely noone wants to comment on.
Come on admit it, you took this phrase from an episode of Star Trek, didn't you?
Plasma conduits, intertial dampers, blah blah blah. You aren't fooling anybody.
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