This has already been done. Canarie, a Canadian group, is building a disk drive out of a 5k mile DWDM ring.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/161735.html
Over time, a combination of high index materials, integrated photonic circuits (waveguides, detectors, and lasers on single chips) will make this more feasible.
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This has already been done. Canarie, a Canadian group, is building a disk drive out of a 5k mile DWDM ring. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/161735.html Over time, a combination of high index materials, integrated photonic circuits (waveguides, detectors, and lasers on single chips) will make this more feasible.