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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."
Just goes to show what kind of "nerds" we have populating the site these days...
Time was when you could toss a story like this out there and the readers would understand and be able to discuss it...