{"id":281097,"date":"2010-02-05T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/05\/germanium-lasers-offer-ray-of-hope-for-optical-computing\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T07:15:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T12:15:30","slug":"germanium-lasers-offer-ray-of-hope-for-optical-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281097","title":{"rendered":"Germanium lasers offer ray of hope for optical computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticsinfobase.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=OFS-1997-OTuD5\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/02\/5feb10ojb4tsdv.jpg\" \/><\/a>Bandwidth scarcity, is there any more pressing global issue that we&#8217;re faced with today? We think not. Given the exponential growth in both computing power and software&#8217;s exploitation and expectation of greater resources, it&#8217;s no surprise that at some point we&#8217;ll have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/04\/intel-teases-six-core-gulftown-discusses-tera-scale-computing\/\">look beyond<\/a> simple electrical currents as the transporters of our data. One bold step taken in that direction has been the demonstration of an operational germanium-on-silicon laser by researchers at MIT. By tweaking the electron count in germanium atoms with the help of some added phosphorous, they&#8217;ve been able to coax them into a photon-emitting state of being &#8212; something nobody thought possible with indirect bandgap semiconductors. Perhaps the best part of this is that germanium can be integrated relatively easily into current manufacturing processes, meaning that light-based internal communication within our computers is now at least a tiny bit closer to becoming a reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/05\/germanium-lasers-offer-ray-of-hope-for-optical-computing\/\">Germanium lasers offer ray of hope for optical computing<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:03:00 EST.  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We think not. Given the exponential growth in both computing power and software&#8217;s exploitation and expectation of greater resources, it&#8217;s no surprise that at some point we&#8217;ll have to look beyond simple electrical currents as the transporters of our data. 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