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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The Plasmons are Dead! by sarlos · 2005-08-09 05:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The Plasmons? I thought the Glutons erradicated them! I hear the Fruitons are the longstanding enemies of the Glutons and are teaming up with the Clapons to attempt revenge for the savage slaughtering of innocent Plasmons...

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