{"id":232407,"date":"2010-01-26T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:06:25","slug":"optical-computing-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/232407","title":{"rendered":"Optical computing breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/news\/frame.html?main=\/news\/news_single.html?id%3D11731\" >Via KurzweilAI.net<\/a> &#8212; It really is fun watching to see where the next big advancement in computing comes from. Optical computers, quantum computers, something we haven&#8217;t even heard of yet? One thing is certain, computers will continue to become more and more powerful for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Spasers set to sum: A new dawn for optical computing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">New Scientist Tech, Jan. 25, 2010<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;spaser,&#8221; the latest by-product of a buzzing field known as nanoplasmonics, based on plasmons, may lead to building a super-fast\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/26\/optical-computing-breakthrough\/loadBrain('Computer')\">computer<\/a> that computes with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/26\/optical-computing-breakthrough\/loadBrain('Light')\">light<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plasmons, which are ultra-high-frerquency\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/26\/optical-computing-breakthrough\/loadBrain('Electron')\">electron<\/a> waves on a metallic surface, overcome the speed limits of the wires that interconnect\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/26\/optical-computing-breakthrough\/loadBrain('Transistor')\">transistor<\/a>s in chips, allowing for converting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/26\/optical-computing-breakthrough\/loadBrain('Electronic')\">electronic<\/a> signals into photonic ones and back again with speed and efficiency.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20527441.600-spasers-set-to-sum-a-new-dawn-for-optical-computing.html\" >Read Original Article&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6542\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6542&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via KurzweilAI.net &#8212; It really is fun watching to see where the next big advancement in computing comes from. 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