Engineers Build Ultrasmall Organic Laser

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 3, 2014 @08:34AM from the arming-the-nanites dept.

ckwu writes: Researchers have made the tiniest organic laser reported to date. The 8-micrometer-long, 440-nanometer-wide device, which looks like a suspended bridge riddled with holes, is carved into a silicon chip coated with an organic dye. Integrated into microprocessors, such tiny lasers could one day speed up computers by shuttling data using light rather than electrons. The new organic laser is optically pumped—that is, powered by pulses from another laser. But it has a very low threshold—the energy required to start lasing—of 4 microjoules per square centimeter. The low threshold brings the device closer to engineers' ultimate goal of creating an organic laser that can run on electric current, which would be key for on-chip use.

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Now we need by rossdee · 2014-10-03 08:37 · Score: 4, Funny

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Re:GMO by i+kan+reed · 2014-10-03 08:54 · Score: 2

Apparently, yes. Gluten is a specific plant protein, it's not present in organic semiconductors. Which by the way, also contain no nucleic acids, thus are also not GMOs.
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My goldish ... by PPH · 2014-10-03 13:07 · Score: 2

... are giving me threatening looks.

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