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Evanescent Lasers to Speed Up Data Transmission

Posted by samzenpus on from the greased-lightning dept.

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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  1. evanescent laser? by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 5, Funny

    evanescent laser? Does it imbue people with emo powers?

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  2. Uses by Zatchmort · · Score: 5, Funny

    a hightly accurate optical clock What, you mean, like, looking at the sun??
  3. well, by Verte · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember reading some of the patents they got for this a few months ago. I'm pretty sure we've talked about this before, too. That's not to say I'm any less excited- when we start to see this technology applied to inter-core busses, we'll see latency drop low enough to integrate a bucketload of cores on a single die.

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  4. intel, I mean by Verte · · Score: 5, Informative

    and here is the site for their research: http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/Tera-Scale/ 1419.htm

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