Has anyone else seen this nanoscale laser breakthrough??

[scumbagatheist]

"Nanophotonics researchers at Arizona State University have created the world’s first electrically powered room-temperature nanolasers. These lasers are the single most important step towards building computer chips that use light instead of electricity for ultra-fast and efficient on- and off-chip communications."

Here the link to the article

 

[laseroptics]

Interesting article, thanks for sharing.

 

[DragonSoulSong]

Curious, fascinating, and a very exciting step towards optical computing! Thanks for sharing! I wonder what wavelength those tiny little lasers output at... Would something in the IR or red region of the spectrum be a fair guess, do you think, considering the fact that it is based on InGaAs?

Dragon/Cody

 

[ChaosLord]

Thanks for sharing. Nice to see a breakthrough in optical computing.

 

[IsaacT]

Thanks for sharing! This will be very helpful to me as I will be doing a speech for my communications class. It is to be an informative speech and I chose to speak about lasers so this will help a lot!

 

[corey5188]

This article was freaking amazing! Cant wait till we have that kind of computing speeds, and from lasers non the less!

 

[BShanahan14rulz]

I wonder, so the cavity is now smaller than one wavelength, is this the claim? Interesting article, thanks!

 

[tonyt]

One of my old colleague's is actually working on this very subject. Developing nano-lasers to super cool molecules for quantum computing. Lasers are the future of computing and not just for optical computers, they are fast but what if we could skip that completely and go straight to quantum computer technology! Civilization as we know it would be completely changed instantly.