Simple wavelength detector could speed data communications
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Researchers at SLAC and Stanford have created a new device, smaller than a grain of rice, that could streamline optical data communications. It can directly identify the wavelength of light that hits it, and should scale down to the even tinier dimensions needed for multichannel optical data receivers on future generations of computer chips.