Breaking bottlenecks to the electronic-photonic information technology revolution

Breaking bottlenecks to the electronic-photonic information technology revolution 05/01/2018 02:00 PM EDT Researchers at the University of Washington, working with researchers from the ETH-Zurich, Purdue University and Virginia Commonwealth University, have achieved an optical communications breakthrough that could revolutionize information technology. They created a tiny device, smaller than a human hair, that translates electrical bits (0 and 1 of the digital language) into light, or photonic bits, at speeds 10s of times faster than current technologies. Full story at https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/04/25/breaking-bottlenecks-to-the-electronic-photonic-information-technology-revolution/ Source University of Washington This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111