Evanescent Lasers to Speed Up Data Transmission

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser. But what is an 'evanescent' laser? It is a step toward 'combining lasers and other key optical components with the existing electronic capabilities in silicon.' In other words, this research work will provide a way to integrate optical and electronic functions on a single chip. As these evanescent lasers can produce stable short pulses of laser light, they will be useful for many optical applications, such as high-speed data transmission or highly accurate optical clocks."

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evanescent laser?

[Cassius Corodes]

evanescent laser? Does it imbue people with emo powers?

Uses

[Zatchmort]

a hightly accurate optical clock What, you mean, like, looking at the sun??

Re:Is it just me

[MrNaz]

Yea I read effervescent as well. For a moment I thought the article was about researchers who had managed to genetically engineer sharks to live in soda.