Nanophotonic switch device for routing light on a chip scale

IBM scientists today took another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about 100X smaller than the cross section of a human hair.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news124988995.html">Nanophotonic switch device for routing light on a chip scale</a></p> <p>IBM scientists today took another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about 100X smaller than the cross section of a human hair. </p>