Engineers take big step toward using light instead of wires inside computers

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 06:00 in Physics & Chemistry

(Phys.org)—Stanford engineers have designed and built a prism-like device that can split a beam of light into different colors and bend the light at right angles, a development that could eventually lead to computers that use optics, rather than electricity, to carry data.

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