Surface plasmons squeeze light

[Mr. McD]

Physicists in Denmark and France led by Sergey Bozhevolnyi of the University of Aalborg have developed a new class of waveguide that could get round one of the biggest obstacles to photonic circuits. The devices allow light at telecommunications wavelengths to be "squeezed" to below the diffraction limit, allowing it to pass though small regions such as channels on a chip without being significantly lost (Nature 440 508).

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/17

[Ezlivin]

1. Give me a warp speed computer, Scotty

How long before we have massively parallel quantum computers?

How long before the first service patch is issued for it?

:)

[VWolf]

2. Answers

1. 10 years
2. 10 years, 6 hours

[Spinzonner]

3. Double those numbers and they'll still be late if Microsoft is involved

[sutz12]

4. You think it'll run on Windows?

:rofl: