With the future of computing looking increasingly likely to become light-based , it pays to work out how to make the switching of light as efficient as possible. Enter tiny silicon discs, which have now been shown to be the fastest ever optical switches at the nanoscale. Read more…
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A Tiny Silicon Disc Is the World’s Fastest Nanoscale Optical Switch
So, that Internet apocalypse that’s going to befall us when the our fiber optic cables max out? Maybe not so much. On Thursday, engineers reported in Science that they’d broken the “capacity limit” for fiber optic transmission, opening the door to future networks that carry more data further at lower costs. Read more…
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Engineers Just Broke the Capacity Limit For Fiber Optic Transmission
Alexandrite is a gemstone coming into popularity because it is one color by day and another color by night. We’ll tell you how it manages this color transformation. Read more…
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How does a gemstone change color from red to green?