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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16661 Location: On a slope
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Lasers on a chip
This is cool..."researchers" funded by Intel have managed to generate lasers using a silicon chip.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/techn ... ref=slogin
Now it's only a matter of time before we can mount these on sharks and conquer the world.
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Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:55 am |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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lol @ sharks. You do know that Dr. Evil's father was a Belgian boulangier right?
Can you copy-paste the article tho? I don't wanna register to read the damn thing..
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Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:23 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16661 Location: On a slope
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errr...I didn't have to register, but ok.
[quote="NY Times"]
A Chip That Can Transfer Data Using Laser Light
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By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: September 18, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 — Researchers plan to announce on Monday that they have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams. The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.
As a result, chip makers may be able to put the high-speed data communications industry on the same curve of increased processing speed and diminishing costs — the phenomenon known as Moore’s law — that has driven the computer industry for the last four decades.
The development is a result of research at Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Commercializing the new technology may not happen before the end of the decade, but the prospect of being able to place hundreds or thousands of data-carrying light beams on standard industry chips is certain to shake up both the communications and computer industries.
Lasers are already used to transmit high volumes of computer data over longer distances — for example, between offices, cities and across oceans — using fiber optic cables. But in computer chips, data moves at great speed over the wires inside, then slows to a snail’s pace when it is sent chip-to-chip inside a computer.
With the barrier removed, computer designers will be able to rethink computers, packing chips more densely both in home systems and in giant data centers. Moreover, the laser-silicon chips — composed of a spider’s web of laser light in addition to metal wires — portend a vastly more powerful and less expensive national computing infrastructure. For a few dollars apiece, such chips could transmit data at 100 times the speed of laser-based communications equipment, called optical transceivers, that typically cost several thousand dollars.
Currently fiber optic networks are used to transmit data to individual neighborhoods in cities where the data is then distributed by slower conventional wire-based communications gear. The laser chips will make it possible to send avalanches of data to and from individual homes at far less cost.
They could also give rise to a new class of supercomputers that could share data internally at speeds not possible today.
The breakthrough was achieved by bonding a layer of light-emitting indium phosphide onto the surface of a standard silicon chip etched with special channels that act as light-wave guides. The resulting sandwich has the potential to create on a computer chip hundreds and possibly thousands of tiny, bright lasers that can be switched on and off billions of times a second.
“This is a field that has just begun exploding in the past 18 months,â€
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Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:04 am |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Lol, I had completely forgotten about that...even if I did see all the Austin Powers movies. I loved the way they portrayed the Dutch.
| | | | Quote: Goldmember: Dr. Evil, we still have the ultimate insurance policy. May I present to you, the very sexual, the very toite, Austin Power's fahza. Dr. Evil: His what? Number 2: His fahza, Dr. Evil. Dr. Evil: His farger? What's a farger? Goldmember: His fahza. You know, the fahza. Dr. Evil: You know Goldmember, I don't speak freaky-deaky Dutch. Okay, perv boy? Goldmember: Fahza, his dad, dad is fahza. Dr. Evil: Oh, his dad. His *fa-ther* | | | | |
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:12 pm |
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Arathorn
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Joined: Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:23 am Posts: 3956 Location: Amsterdam
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Bravo Nederland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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Lol, great film.
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:06 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16661 Location: On a slope
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gotta love a good chance to discuss the finer points of Austin Powers. I love how the evil empire owns Starbucks.
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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And I love it that they wanted to call their Super Death Ray 'The Alan Parsons Project'.
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