New Nanophotonic Waveguides developed at MIT

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday August 9, 2005 @05:15AM from the smoke-and-mirrors dept.

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."

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Nanophotonic waveguides? by OldManAndTheC++ · 2005-08-09 08:27 · Score: 4, Funny

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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Re:eep by Maian · 2005-08-09 15:05 · Score: 2, Funny

I blame the title. Too much Star Trek mumbo jumbo. Nanophotonic Waveguides...wtf is that? Needs to be nonsensical title like "one step closer to phasers".