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First Germanium Laser Bring Us Closer To Comp... Electricity To Move Data
MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication.... |
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Hypernova
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This is excellent news. To me fully optical computers, I mean where a CPU processes the data exclusively optically are a much more realistic and feasible target.
----------------------------------------I can very well imagine fully optical CPU's available on the market in 30 years. The graal is the quantum computer but I think that one is at least 50 or more years far away. Will I be alive long enough to have one on my desktop? Who knows......  |
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